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Week of May 3, 2013
Going crazy is still going somewhere. First up…
Silver Linings Playbook
The easiest way to tell if you’re still crazy after being released from a mental hospital is if your imaginary friends throw you a welcome home party.
Luckily, actual people receive the bipolar outpatient in this dramedy.
Discharged after a stint, Pat (Bradley Cooper) arrives home to find his wife has a restraining order against him.
Living with his parents (Jacki Weaver, Robert De Niro), he formulates a plan to win her back.
Helping him in the process is Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a deranged widow who needs a dance partner in trade.
But when a binary bet pairs their recital with the Philadelphia Eagles, Pat’s recuperation is threatened.
A charismatic comedy combined with a neurotic love story, Silver Linings Playbook plays host to a horde of hysterical performances and madcap chemistry.
Incidentally, the hardest adjustment to life outside of a mental health facility is administering your own electric shock therapy. 0
The Guilt Trip
The best road trip that a 30-something-year-old man can take with his mother is one that ends at an old folks home.
Unfortunately, the only child in this comedy is en route to secretly find her first love.
Andy (Seth Rogen), the inventor of an eco-cleaning product, invites his overbearing mother (Barbra Streisand) on a cross-country sales trip to San Francisco.
But being cooped up in a compact car with his prying mother drives Andy to the brink.
Meanwhile her embarrassing antics outside the vehicle causes him to bear fruitless pitches.
What’s more, she wants to cut the trip short before reaching the surprise reunion Andy has planned with her first boyfriend.
Cruising down familiar travelogue territory, The Guilt Trip is a dismal comedy with a discordant performance from Streisand.
Besides, if it weren’t for your mother on a road trip, who would you get to change your flat tires. 0
Broken City
Nowadays, the winning mayoral campaign is the one that knows how to use Twitter.
However, the incumbent in this thriller doesn’t broadcast his agenda - due to its unpopularity.
Despite exoneration for killing a rape suspect, Detective Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) is still relieved from duty by New York's Mayor (Russell Crowe) and the police captain (Jeffrey Wright).
Now working as a private detective, Taggart is beckoned back to City Hall where the mayor hires him to follow his disloyal wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones).
But when the campaign manager (Kyle Chandler) of the mayor’s competition (Barry Pepper) turns up dead, Taggart’s typical infidelity case becomes an investigation.
While it starts off promising, Broken City quickly converts into a comical contemporary film noir with embellished characters and an inconsistent script.
Furthermore, as mayor, your P.I. should be more concerned with proving your wife isn’t planning on running against you in the next election. 0
***Sentimental Institute***
The Snake Pit
The hardest part of diagnosing craziness in women is not accidentally making a blanket assessment of the entire sex.
And while this drama doesn’t put all women in padded cells, it does confine at least one.
Rousing after a hysterical blackout, housewife Virginia (Olivia de Havilland) finds she’s been admitted to a mental hospital where she’s been diagnosed schizophrenic.
Disorientated and frantic, Virginia is unable to remember the events leading up to her residency at the hospital.
But overtime, psychotherapy and electric shock therapy help her recount the troublesome marital matters between her and her husband.
And with each session she draws closer to escaping the maddening cries of her fellow patients.
A pioneering perspective of the medieval practices of a 1940s mental institute, The Snake Pit is an artistic and an educational achievement.
However, with free pills, free psychoanalysis and free pajamas, who’s ever going to admit they’re sane?
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