A lovable, rare find in realistic genre film.

Rating: 10/10 (11 April 2013)

I love this film, directed by David O' Russell, in particularly because it casts the brilliant Jennifer Lawrence as the plain-spoken, cut-to-the-chase heroine, Tiffany. Bradley Cooper plays Pat, the person who's story the film is centered around. I don't usually like Bradley Cooper, I hated him in The Hangover, and I don't think many other films have done him much justice, but, in Silver Linings Playbook he seems to really engage with the persona of his character and gives a brilliant acting performance.
Pat is definitely not the hero of typical romantic comedies, the ones where the male character saves the day and they always live happily, this comedy is a little different with reference to the drama of the psychological aspects of the film. A family element is brought together by none other than Robert De Niro, who plays Pat's father brilliantly. The family has problems too, but have one thing in common, they are all obsessed with the Philadelphia Eagles, which football is seen as a sort of bonding time, but, there are some engaging emotional scenes between father and son.
Cooper and Lawrence's on-screen chemistry is so cool and the two are lovable together, constantly throwing insults, and they are not awkward with one another at any point, just brutally honest, this could have been a different story had any other actors or actresses taken their parts. Again, I think Silver Linings Playbook is enjoyable but sentimental, not at all cheesy, but an exemplary representation of a twenty-first century relationship. An exceptional film!