You Really Feel Bad for Bradley Cooper's Character!

Rating: 9/10 (29 January 2013)

I has Asbergers as it is kind of bipolar disorder in a way. I have to take medication and seek counseling. But unlike the Bradley Cooper character of Pat, he does not take medication for the way it makes him feel.
As he just lost his teaching job, his home, and his wife who got a restraining order against him for beating his wife's lover in the shower. And spent eight months in a Baltimore mental facility to help him. You really feel for this guy and the kind of mental problems he faces.
His worried and loving mother, Delores(played by the great character actress, Jacki Weaver an Australian putting on a Philly accent), takes him back home, against the wishes of his Eagles loving estranged father, Pat Sr(Robert De Niro), as their love of the Eagles is all father and son have in common, but nothing else.
His life takes a drastic turn as he gets to working out by jogging with a garbage bag on and how people say he is unrecognizable losing the weight throughout the movie. He then meets Tiffany(played by Jennifer Lawerence, no wonder they are calling her the next Meryl Streep!).
Tiffany is the female version of Pat and a widow who's husband was killed and has her own mental issues. And lives with her parents. But has a dancing basement that she helped to build.
Despite the love-hate relationship between them, both have a bond of some quirky sorts with one another. Trying to find common ground in the process.
But Pat wanting to be back with his soon to be ex, keeps getting in the way. As Tiffany wants to be a dancer. But if he writes a letter and gives to Tiffany, to give to Nikki as he has that restraining order against him. But Tiffany in return, wants him to dance with her in an upcoming dance competition.
He reluctantly agrees as they go through a grueling and rigid dance training, helped by Chris Tucker, who is a friend of Pat's, and another patient from the mental facility.
A bittersweet but really sweet and dry humor kind of movie. Lawrence and Cooper really make a great couple. And how they have a sort of understanding and love-hate relationship with one another. Makes the movie watchable.
Weaver, Cooper, and Tucker are great in the supporting roles. Lending support to the two. No wonder it is a great film. It is not for everybody if you can understand why Pat Jr and Tiffany go through on a physical, mental, and emotional level!