A Sad and Beautiful World vs Silver Linings Playbook

A Sad and Beautiful World has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7.1/10 for Silver Linings Playbook). A Sad and Beautiful World is the shorter watch at 1h 50m compared with 2h 2m. Silver Linings Playbook is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

A Sad and Beautiful World posterA Sad and Beautiful World2025 VS Silver Linings Playbook posterSilver Linings Playbook2012
A Sad and Beautiful WorldSilver Linings Playbook
Audience score★ 8.0/10★ 7.1/10
Year20252012
Length1h 50m2h 2m
GenresComedy, Drama, RomanceComedy, Drama, Romance
CountryLebanon–
DirectorCyril ArisDavid O. Russell
Main castCamille Salameh, Julia Kassar, Mounia Akl, Hasan Akil, Tino KaramBradley Cooper, Shea Whigham, John Ortiz, Dash Mihok, Robert De Niro

Synopsis

A Sad and Beautiful World

In this sweeping love story that spans three decades of passion, heartbreak, and hope, Nino and Yasmina find themselves drawn together by a magnetic relationship. As they face an impossible choice between love and survival, they must decide if they want to build a family and chart a path to happiness in Lebanon, despite the tragedies ravaging the country.

Silver Linings Playbook

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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