Silver Linings Play Book [split topic]

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Silver Linings Play Book.

Gerard Butler and Jennifer Love Hewitt are both down on their luck, and feeling the emotionally effects of having lost a loved one. Butler, fresh out of a spell in a secure mental institute (voiced expertly by Jon Lovitz), returns home to his parents (expertly portrayed by Robert DeNiro and Robert Peston), to try and piece his life back together by reading books about Ernest Hemmingway with unhappy endings.

He meets Love Hewitt on his travels, a recently widowed woman who lives in a garage in her parents garden, without their knowledge. She secretly resides there by impersonating various household objects, such as a tire, an iron, or a tire iron, whenever one of her parents come to get the car. When not in hiding, she practices dancing, dreaming of being a backing dancer for Sir Elton John (played expertly by Sir Elton John).

In Steven Gerrard she sees an escape to a happier life, and they become dancing partners, both focusing on the towns big dance competition (expertly portrayed by that one off Hi-De-Hi who looked a bit 50's and that and did that song on top of the pops).

What follows is an enjoyable romp through the minds of two emotionally sensitive souls (think Forest Gump, Pyscho, and One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing), as they come to terms with life after loss, friendship and dancing.

I'd recommend this film to people who enjoy films, as well as those who possess at least one working eye.

This film is in colour.

8/10