

Silver Linings Playbook
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After losing his job and wife, and spending time in an institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life and reconcile with his wife, but his father would be happy if he shared his obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles. Things get complicated when he meets Tiffany Maxwell who offers to help him reconnect with his wife if he will do something very important for her in exchange.
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7.2/10
12,940 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $21M
- Box office
- $236.4M
- Language
- English
- depression
- infidelity
- dancing
- friendship
- philadelphia, pennsylvania
- based on novel or book
- italian american
- widow
- superstition
- letter
- dance competition
- mental institution
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- Theatrical7 Dec 2012
- Digital / OTT15 Sept 2019
United StatesUS
- PremiereMill Valley Film Festival4 Oct 2012
- Theatrical (limited)R16 Nov 2012
- TheatricalR25 Dec 2012
- PhysicalR30 Apr 2013
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1521 Nov 2012
United Arab EmiratesAE
- Theatrical22 Nov 2012
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM31 Jan 2013
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival8 Sept 2012
- Theatrical21 Nov 2012
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical21 Feb 2013
AustriaAT
- Theatrical3 Jan 2013
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1627 Feb 2013
BoliviaBO
- Theatrical14 Feb 2013
BrazilBR
- Theatrical121 Feb 2013
BulgariaBG
- TheatricalB25 Jan 2013
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Silver Linings Playbook was released on 16 November 2012.
Audience reviews
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tmdb39513728
2/9/2015
**Dolly Mopping** (29 January 2013) Jennifer Lawrence is one magnificent slut. Her performance in _Silver Linings_ is a tour de force. She nails it. Not since Jennifer Jason Lee in _Last Exit to Brooklyn_ has a trashy trollop been played so convincingly. She easily deserves to win the Oscar for best actress and for any other category the film might win since she is the reason it's in the running at all. It's not…
- K8/10
Kamurai
9/25/2020
Great watch, probably won't watch again, and can recommend. This is a great movie that I don't care about. I'm not a particularly big fan of either Bradley Cooper or Jennifer Lawrence, though they are clearly great actors, and give a fantastic performance in this, especially with the range of emotions delivered and broad spectrum of dialogue topics. It's about two sad, broken people who are trying to rehabilit…
- F9/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
7/6/2022
**An excellent film.** I confess that this movie was better than I was expecting. I thought I would find a simple romantic comedy, conventional and relatively predictable, but I was very pleased with the way the story develops and the conception of the characters. The director, David O. Russell, is also responsible for _The Fighter_, a film that won two Oscars but that I don't think is as good as this one. The …
- S
scout283
4/19/2025
It’s hard to find a film that is intimately relatable while not overly exaggerating or undermining human conditions. This is a movie where I saw myself in the characters, especially at a symptomatic time when I needed to see a story where people were in similar chaos and found coping mechanisms that reflected their personal battles. Pat manages through routine and structure, and Tiffany through movement and dance—…
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