Silver Linings Playbook

Silver Linings Playbook is really good!! It's a drama with just the right amount of comic relief. Everyone is so great in it. Bradley Cooper plays Pat, who is bipolar and trying to get his wife (and his job) back after almost beating his wife's lover to death and serving time in a mental facility for it. Jennifer Lawrence plays Tiffany, a friend's sister who also suffers from some variety of mental illness. When they meet, a friendship begins with Tiffany offering to help Pat contact his wife, if in return, he will help her with a special dance project. Robert De Niro plays Pat's dad, a die hard Eagles fan. Chris Tucker is Pat's buddy, Danny, from the institution.

One thing that struck me about it was the in-your-face honesty of both Pat and Tiffany, neither of whom have much of a filter. (Pat even says at one point that he doesn't have a filter.) But there is something refreshing about knowing exactly what people are thinking and feeling, especially with all the drama that is surrounding them.

Best scene (well, other than the obvious big event at the end, which was awesome)-- when Pat's dad angrily blames Tiffany for his woes of the day and Tiffany launches into a rant, including a stunningly detailed recounting of scores from the last several weeks of Philadelphia sports events. All the guys in the room are very impressed and are like, "WHOA. Wow!" 

Go see Silver Linings Playbook.

Kimberly is doing the daily November "thankful for" post on Facebook, and yesterday she said she was thankful that NPR had introduced her to an actor named Bradley Cooper. She posted a video having to do with the interview and said she had Googled him. I was first in a line of friends to say, "Excuse me?" Bradley Cooper? Where has she been? She said she wasn't a fan of movies about being hungover. Then came the replies of lists of Cooper's other movies. People's Sexiest Man Alive? Hello? I love that girl, but every now and then, she is a good distance outside the loop. ;)