Worst movie I've ever seen.

Rating: 1/10 (24 December 2019)

I saw this in the theater when it first came out and couldn't believe what I had just seen. To begin with Lawrence is beautiful but cannot act. She might be able to take direction which makes her valuable but she cannot contain a character. But this is the least of the issues with this mess.
No coherence within the movie, no character motivation,
It's in the title, Silver Linings Playbook. Well? Where is it? What does it say? How did you create it? All unknown. It was probably at one time important to the theme of the movie.
A dangerous, violent, recently incarcerated man with a restraining order against him shows up at his ex-wifes' house and the only cop in town scolds him like a puppy before releasing him. All with a smile.
The father is obsessive compulsive and can't keep a job, so he gambles and bookies for a living. Wife still follows him around the house with a smile and never shows any agitation. Bets the house on a football game and she still smiles. It's only a matter of weeks before the house is gone. Nice happy ending.
Apparently you don't have to know anything about dance to win a dance contest, all you have to do is jump around like kids in a bounce house. It says a little about what it takes to judge a contest as well.
Mental illness is coddled and acquiesced to the entire movie and in the end it's clear that the actions of these characters will destroy the entire family. The only treatment is the food the drugged up mother feeds them.
Every year my friends and I list our best and worst movies. This always come to me immediately as the worst and every year I check to see the ratings fall. in the first few years they did but have remained steady for a couple of years now.
It's bad and should be avoided.