(DVD Review) Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

The hard part about living in a rural area is that you often do not get to see a lot of the non blockbuster movies. Not necessarily the "indie" films, but the movies that theaters don't have faith will bring in the big bucks...and unfortunately this is one that slipped through the cracks. So now that I am finally getting to catch up with the movies that some have RAVED about I am finding that some of them are not as great as I thought they would be. This is one of them.

Storyline: After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own. - IMDB.COM

Was it bad? No. Was it good? Sure. But it wasn't as life altering as people made it out to be. We enjoyed the movie just fine, but it wasn't something that I would have thought would have gotten the recognition that it did. Maybe people loved it so much because the contrast of what type of movies the actors in the film normally work on. Cooper in a more serious role is something fresh, but not life altering.

Worth it? Sure. It's worth renting on Netflix or Redbox.