--- description: Trailer for Serena, a Depression-era love story starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper title: Trailer: Serena with Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26cce263f2d0a5df/6987638a8e0601d14e458011/serena-lawrence-cooper.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch the New Trailer for _Serena_ With Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Oct 30, 2014 3:55 PM CUT   by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Oct 30, 2014 3:55 PM CUT Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper’s last two movies together, _Silver Linings Playbook_ and _American Hustle_, earned the stars ample praise and accolades, often pointing to the pair’s chemistry onscreen. Now the duo attempts to carry on that success with _Serena_, a Depression-era drama that’s equal parts romance and crime. In the new trailer, cut for U.S. audiences, Lawrence and Cooper are again shown playing Serena and George Pemberton, tycoons of a timber empire in 1930s North Carolina. We see glimpses of their whirlwind romance, the personal and business dilemmas that follow, and the drastic action Serena takes to try to preserve their future together. Adapted from a novel by Ron Rash and directed by Susanne Bier, the film has been long in the making, cycling through some casting and directorial changes and followed by a lengthy editing process. Though the duo have made their biggest impact in dramedies, it remains to be seen how they’ll fare in a movie that dials the humor way down and elevates the drama. _Serena_ was released in Europe this month, and preliminary reviews are middling at best. Perhaps the film will fare better among American audiences when it hits U.S. theaters in February 2015. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3548341/serena-trailer-jennifer-lawrence-bradley-cooper/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3548341/serena-trailer-jennifer-lawrence-bradley-cooper/"},"headline":"Watch the New Trailer for Serena With Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper","datePublished":"2014-10-30T15:55:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:07:30.497Z","description":"The pair reunites for a third time on the silver screen","url":"https://time.com/3548341/serena-trailer-jennifer-lawrence-bradley-cooper/","keywords":["movies","Jennifer Lawrence","bradley cooper","Movie trailers","Trailers","film"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26cce263f2d0a5df/6987638a8e0601d14e458011/serena-lawrence-cooper.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26cce263f2d0a5df/6987638a8e0601d14e458011/serena-lawrence-cooper.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"serena-lawrence-cooper","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3548341/serena-trailer-jennifer-lawrence-bradley-cooper/","name":"Watch the New Trailer for Serena With Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper"}}]}] ```