Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

"Watch for the signs"

Directed by David O. Russell
Produced by Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen, Jonathan Gordon

Screenplay by David O. Russell
Based on "The Silver Linings Playbook" by Matthew Quick
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Anupam Kher, Chris Tucker

Music by Danny Elfman
Cinematography: Masanobu Takayanagi
Edited by Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers
Production company: The Weinstein Company, Mirage Enterprises
Distributed by The Weinstein Company
Release date: 21 November 2012 (Canada)
Running time: 122 minutes
Country: United States

Budget: $21 million
Box office: $236.4 million

"Silver Linings Playbook" is a romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by David O. Russell, and adapted from novel "The Silver Linings Playbook" by Matthew Quick. The story is about Pat Solitano who is released from a psychiatric hospital and moves back in with his parents. Determined to win back his estranged wife, Pat meets recently widowed Tiffany Maxwell, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.

Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

Directed by Woody Allen
Produced by Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, Helen Robin
Written by Woody Allen
Starring: Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Hamish Linklater, Marcia Gay Harden, Jacki Weaver, Erica Leerhsen, Eileen Atkins, Simon McBurney
Cinematography: Darius Khondji
Production company: Perdido Productions
Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics
Release date: 31 July 2014 (Israel)
Running time: 97 minutes
Country: United States, United Kingdom, France
Budget: $16.800.000
Box office: $32.300.000

"Magic in the Moonlight" is a romantic comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. The story is about a famous illusionist, Stanley Crawford, performs in front of a crowd in Berlin with his world-class magic act. After the show, he is greeted by old friend and fellow illusionist Howard Burkan. Howard enlists Stanley to go with him to the Côte d'Azur where a rich American family, the Catledges, has apparently been taken in by a clairvoyant and mystic, Sophie. Therefore he would like the illusionist to help him prove she is a fraud. Or not?