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Silver Linings Playbook (15)

Silver Linings Playbook (15)

Comedy, Drama

After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.

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The critical consensus

The film is somewhat prone to those off-the-cuff deep-and-meaningful revelations that come so much more readily in US indie flicks than in, you know, life; but it manages to positively bleed compassion while remaining light, sexy, dynamic and thought-provoking.

****(*)Hannah McGill, The List, 13/11/2012

Cooper and Lawrence have a nice, believable chemistry, and by the time they get to the dance competition it’s surprising how tense it is and much you are rooting for them.

****(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 18/11/2012

This is cinema at its most alive, with frantic zooms and breakneck edits adding fizz to a genre that had long lost its sparkle.

****(*)Jamie Dunn, The Skinny, 15/11/2012

The ending is a bust, but there’s a wealth of good stuff here.

Philip Brown, Little White Lies, 21/11/2012

This is a date movie that doesn't offer the sophistication it thinks it does, but is as enjoyable and good-natured as the genre requires.

***(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 22/11/2012

Silver Linings Playbook is all things to all moviegoers. Please join the queues circling the blocks.

*****Nigel Andrews, Financial Times, 22/11/2012

See it in the wrong mood and you might hate this film. But I have to say it sneaked through my defences.

****(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 22/11/2012

The picture builds to a charming and funny climax that you can see coming without anticipating quite how it will play out. A feelgood film that doesn’t avoid life’s harsh realities, Silver Linings Playbook is heartwarming winter treat.

*****Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express, 22/11/2012

Lawrence is Silver Linings Playbook’s very own silver lining, the sole glittering element in a fug of cinematic flatulence.

**(*)(*)(*)Robbie Collin, The Telegraph, 22/11/2012

A lot of the credit for this has to go to Lawrence and Cooper. Their attempts to out-crazy each other make their rapid-fire repartee feel like the back and forth of an old-fashioned screwball comedy duo.

****(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 22/11/2012

Jennifer Lawrence is the standout in a tonally uneven, eccentric romantic dramedy that fuses The Fisher King with Romy And Michele’s High School Reunion.

***(*)(*)Damon Wise, Empire Online, 22/11/2012

Screwball comedy at its screwiest.

****(*)Chris Tookey, Daily Mail, 23/11/2012

It's by and large an enjoyable play on the screwball comedy. However, it has the kind of ending that makes me want to throw it out of the nearest window.

***(*)(*)Edinburgh Guide, 23/11/2012

Silver Linings Playbook isn't as audacious as it might have been in squeezing comedy out of desperate psychology, and it does finally imply that bipolarity can be cured by love and self-belief. But it's deliciously acted, smartly scripted, and Russell and cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi shunt the camera about so as to make a small story look like a big, brash, freewheeling one.

Jonathan Romney, The Independent on Sunday, 25/11/2012

A hugely enjoyable film.

Philip French, The Observer, 25/11/2012

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

Cameo, Edinburgh from Friday February 15, 2013, until Thursday March 28, 2013. More info: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/

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