It speaks to just how good David O. Russell is at portraying raw, high-strung sincerity that�Silver Linings Playbook�is able to walk a line between likable and tolerable despite a premise the reeks of quirky bullshit. �In addition to its frequently cutesy treatment of mental illness, the movie features a love interest who instantly latches onto and pursues the film's mess of a hero like she read the script in advance and was assured things will eventually work out.
Based on a novel by�Matthew Quick and adapted for the screen by Russell himself,�Silver Linings Playbook is an unfussy, rambling crowd-pleaser that recalls elements of the filmmaker's past work: the New Age coachings of the�existential detectives in�I Heart Huckabees,�the back-in-your-childhood-home set-up of�Spanking the Monkey and the chaotic regional family flavor of�The Fighter.
More than any of that, though, the movie brings to mind the leaked videos of Russell having a meltdown in front of�Lily Tomlin on the set of�Huckabees, pacing back and forth, incensed and out of control. Russell seems, from all accounts, like a man who knows his way around mood swings and wild bursts of emotion. His very apparent ability to empathize with his protagonist in Silver Linings Playbook�while allowing him to behave in some ugly ways both grounds the film and, at times, proves problematic. Russell is more generous with his hero than he is with those who live with and love the guy.
Pat (Bradley Cooper) is a former teacher back from eight months in a Baltimore mental institution, The state-provided treatment he's receiving for a previously undiagnosed bipolar disorder is part of a plea bargain stemming from his violent reaction to the discovery that his wife Nikki (Brea Bee) had been fooling around with another man. Pat has…
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