Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012) by Dave J — 06 Mar 2014

Wednesday, January 15, 2014.

(2012) Silver Linings Playbook.

DRAMA.

Mom, Dolores (Jacki Weaver) has just signed a release form to allow his adult son, Pat junior(Bradley Cooper) out of an institution for attacking his wife's lover. And upon getting out, Pat still believes that him and his wife still get along as a couple, even though she has a restraining order against him. But, in order for Pat not to be sent back to the institution, he has to live under his parents supervision, who are his parents played by Jacki Weaver as the mom and Pat senior played by Robert DeNiro. Oh, yeah, Pat junior also suffers from bi-polar, who has tendencies to overreact with violent outbursts, and sometimes he'd have to do things in a specific way. And of course, he's eventually going to meet by chance the Jennifer Lawrence character, as Tiffany who has issues as well. Also starring is Chris Tucker as Tucker, the person he made friends with while he was in the institution, and Julia Stiles.

Difficult movie to do, about a person who is bi-polar, but the interesting suggestion that's been done here, can be labelled as therapeutic, such as ballroom dancing was a nice touch. And I also liked the fact that the environment didn't have any guns around, since if Pat were to get a hold of one, since he has unknowingly attacked people for no reason, then it would've turned into a whole new movie altogether.

3 out of 4 stars.