Review – Silver Linings Playbook

Indie romcoms aren’t usually my thing. But every once in awhile I get a craving to see a movie in a movie theater, and this was the most interesting thing showing. It seriously got off on the wrong foot with a ton of meandering crap about a guy (Bradley Cooper) who gets out of a mental institution and starts obsessing about getting back together with his estranged wife. Though Act One drags out far longer than I would have preferred, the story takes an upturn when the protagonist meets a woman (Jennifer Lawrence) suffering from her own post traumatic stress issues. Like many other independent productions, this one works far too hard to be clever. But it does pack enough genuinely charming moments to overcome at least some of its own artiness. Mildly amusing