FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Silver Linings Playbook

Pat (Bradley Cooper) is surprisingly confident that he has just been released from a mental hospital and is not allowed to approach his ex-wife (because of whom he was admitted). His motto: "Even higher! Therefore, repairing his marriage is at the top of his self-imposed list of priorities. He may have beaten up her new partner, but that's a long time ago for Pat. A nice point in David O. Russell's screwball comedy is the fact that Pat's father Dolores (Robert De Niro) also has no more access to the football stadium because he rioted there. Since then, he has watched football at home and combines it with his strange superstitions, whether victory or defeat. Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence) is a young widow from the neighbourhood who almost everyone would call a slut (although she's just injured). Lawrence plays the role with all its rough edges: Tiffany understands Pat, because she is crazy herself. To get closer to Pat, she pretends to have contact to the ex-wife and forces him to take part in a dance competition with her (in return she promises to forward his letters...) The dialogues, the rapprochement between Pat and Tiffany seem so real, that you might almost forget how exaggerated the characters actually are. Just like in the great Hollywood classics (which will also become Silver Linings Playground!). The relationship between Pat and his father, who follows an obsession with the Eagles or the joint dance competition Pat and Tiffany have to endure - it's all so funny and tenderly filmed that you can watch this movie again and again. In Silver Linings Playbook Pat, Tiffany, but also Dolores always find a way that makes a good ending possible. That's why Pat's "Excelsior" isn't that absurd at first. Maybe there really is always a silver stripe on the horizon?