Director: David O. Russell
Produced by: Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen, Jonathan Gordon
Screenplay: 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
Release Year: November 16, 2012
Run Time: 122 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Family. Friends. Led Zeppelin. Lasagna on game day. Philadelphia Eagles score! Embrace a piece of American pie, won’t you? Run back in shape with medication and therapy, Pat. With good behavior and positive self talk, eight months of a mental hospital is a breeze. Waltz into Pat’s life and dance like you mean it! Avoid “My Cheri Amour…” like the plaque. A symptomatic, but extraordinarily beautiful, Tiffany is waiting. Excelsior!
Eight time 2012 Academy Award nominated film, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, “Silver Linings Playbook” scores with mad drama, comedy-relief, and true love. While the script builds on hope, transformation, and empowerment, it also takes on something brave. A mental illness.
Screenplay adapted and directed by David O. Russell, whose all-star cast leading Bradley Cooper, and Academy Award winning Best Actress, Jennifer Lawrence, with Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker, Anupam Kher, and Julia Stiles welcomes us into a troubled yet loving Pennsylvania home. A severely manic Pat educates us on the unnerving symptoms of Bipolar challenges. Clearly, without this element of moody and occasional bipolar eruptions, the film’s meaningful insight into the still, misunderstood yet ingenious condition would be lost. And so would be the healthy laughter that goes along with it.
Admittedly, multi-talented, Director Russell’s own son’s mental health challenges inspired the writing and directing of the almost true to life, film.
An American classic in the making, “Silver Linings Playbook” teaches all of us to outsmart life’s failures or tragedies by choosing to stay positive, besides taking, if necessary, proper medication and counseling, and ultimately, reaching out to our family and friends whether it be for emotional, material or spiritual support in order to, according to the Urban Dictionary’s definition of silver lining, [realize] there is a brighter side to the problem [we are] facing.”
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