The
holidays are always the best time of the year. You get to spend time with the
ones you love, and for the most part they are pretty joyful. The other thing
that the holidays bring, are all those movies hoping for an Oscar, in other
words the best movies of the year usually come out about now. For the next two
months you won’t be able to miss a movie that doesn’t hope to take home some
kind of award come early next year. Well I might just have found one that is
destined to take home more than a few.
What
makes a movie great? Well so many things have to come together to do that. All
the elements need to be there: The writing, the directing, and of course the
acting. “Silver Linings Playbook” has
all that in just the right mix. Pat (Bradley Cooper) has problems. You might
say we all have problems, but Pat’s problems had him
locked up in a mental hospital. That also changes when his Mother Dolores
(Jacki Weaver) comes and gets him out. It seems Pat had an episode after he
found his wife with another man. Pat returns to live at home, and stay with his
father Pat Sr. (Robert De Niro) with his obsession with the Philadelphia
Eagles. Pat has plans to get his wife back; he just wants to show her that he
is different now and has everything under control. Pat is invited to a dinner
with a friend and he meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), who might be as crazy
as he is. Their conversations have no filters and they say whatever comes to
their mind to each other and others as well. Pat wants Tiffany to help him get
a letter to his wife, and in return Tiffany wants Pat to enter in a dance
contest with her. Pat reluctantly agrees, but soon finds that he enjoys the
discipline and structure that dancing requires. Pat and Tiffany seem to have a
chemistry that is hard to miss, but will Pat see it before it is too late?
Just like
their characters Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence have some great chemistry
together. Every time they share the screen it is hard to take your eyes of the
magic that is happening on the screen, which is most of the film. The movie was
written and directed by David O.Russell (Three Kings, The Fighter), which is
based on the novel of the same name by Matthew Quick. There have not been many
performances better this year than you will see from Cooper, Lawrence and De
Niro. It is great to finally see De Niro not be in a film that has the word
‘Focker’ in it and still show why he is one of the best out there. This movie
will make you laugh and at times cry, but when it is all over I promise that
you will be clapping, for this is truly one of the best movies you will see all
year.
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