Silver Linings Playbook

It's easy to get angry - manic-depressive disorder or not. Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) caught his wife Nikki in flagrante delicto with her lover and quickly beat him up. Eight months in a psychiatric ward and a ban on contact with Nikki are the result when Pat moves back in with his parents and desperately wants to win his wife back. So far so hopeless - if it weren't for the equally emotionally unstable Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), whom Pat meets over dinner at a couple's friend's house and who significantly complicates his life in borderline exceptional status. Tiffany, who plunges into one affair after another following the death of her husband, is obviously interested in Pat, but is initially content to serve as Nikki's contact when Pat takes part in a dance competition with her. And suddenly there they are again: the silver linings on the horizon. David O. Russell's highly amusing screwball comedy, which turns its genre on its head, has opened - and expands the view of an extensive family panorama and the ludicrous depths of American suburban life. Following the film adaptation of Matthew Quick's novel "The Silver Linings Playbook", director David O. Russell worked with Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence on the hilarious rogue comedy "American Hustle" and the portrait of a female entrepreneur "Joy". "Silver Linings", which was showered with awards for its cleverly structured and moving story, earned Jennifer Lawrence an Oscar and (together with her great performance in "Winter's Bone") finally lifted her into the premier league of talented character actresses, is also extremely exceptional. A must-see for all lovers of romantic comedies with depth and smart twists.