a touching recovery

Rating: 9/10 (27 December 2016)

Looking at the summary before seeing Silver Linings Playbook (SLP), I could already predict the ending. A man obsessed with making up with his wife enlists the aid of a crazy, husband-bereaved woman. Only one thing can happen. Even so, the efforts Pat makes to improve himself, better himself, and to help Tiffany with her own issues, it touched me. Maybe it was the message of hope for fellow crazies. Maybe it was the message to "read the signs." The acting was superb, De Niro and Lawrence and Cooper all in one film, how the Eagles-obsessed family devoted its life to the birds and how Tiffany and Pat were just so honest to each other (not all the time, but still). Most of us don't say what we mean.
We need to look for the silver linings in life. We cannot lose an opportunity at love when it comes.