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Comedy, Drama
21 November 2012 (USA)

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After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own. Director: David O. Russell 
Writers: David O. Russell, Matthew Quick
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro

Mining subtle comic nuance from mental illness requires a deft touch, especially when the protagonist is the one afflicted. Played too large, and the film falls into farce. Played too inconsistently, and the illness becomes just another plot device (and one that too often disappears when it’s no longer convenient). There’s a reason that films featuring serious mental illness are overwhelmingly dramas. (For as anathema as it might be to comedy, mental illness has long been Oscar gold.)

Faced with such a challenge, David O. Russell, the director of Silver Linings Playbook, was not daunted. Why should he be? This is the same man who managed to mine comedic gold from a feature-length exploration of existential angst and its possible remedies in 2004’s I Heart Huckabees. He does the same in Silver Linings Playbook, using those same not-so-secret ingredients that served him so well in his Huckabees?a top-notch cast, dancing dialogue and a heaping helping of earnestness.
Similarly, though Lawrence’s work in Winter’s Bone established her dramatic acting chops, and the Hunger Games and X-Men: First Class franchises her action star potential, Silver Linings Playbook adds romantic lead to the résumé. It’s difficult to think of another young actress so ideally positioned to do whatever she damn well pleases in the coming years.

With leads as winning as Cooper and Lawrence, and Russell’s signature mix of clever and sincere dialogue, the hook is set. Every single detail doesn’t gel—Chris Tucker’s role as Danny, Pat Jr’s escape-prone friend from the treatment facility, seems a bit extraneous—but it doesn’t need to. By the end of the dance competition finale (yeah, there’s that), the audience, actors and director are on exactly the same page—and it’s Russell’s playbook.

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