A complex romantic tale about real, complex people and families.

Rating: 7/10 (26 November 2012)

The only thing Silver Linings Playbook suffers from is a case of a studio not knowing exactly how to market it. The marketing lead me (and others, judging by the mostly female audience in the theater) to believe this was just north of a rom com chick flick. The only reason I went to see it was because I couldn't believe that David O. Russell, notorious nutbag director of The Fighter, Three Kings and I â™¥ Huckabees would make a rom com chick flick. I was right. This is a funny, painful, heartbreaking, heartwarming, complex romantic tale about real, complex people and families. Bradley Cooper delivers his best performance to date, De Niro doesn't phone this one in, and Jennifer Lawrence is adorable but perhaps only very slightly miscast. Can absolutely see this in the running for this year's Best Adapted Screenplay.