After a great beginning, the silver lining gets lost in Hollywood happy ending

Rating: 5/10 (15 January 2013)

After a great beginning, describing pretty realistically the condition of a person with a mental disorder (in this case bipolar), the movie fails completely in the last 30 minutes, where the main character suddenly gets over his obsessions and finds true love, his family wins a lot of money and his friends manage to solve their emotional and mental problems in order to celebrate the happy-ever-after couple.
Personally I felt downright cheated and insulted by the cheesy ending. But the worst part is that many viewers will really believe that it is that simple to overcome a serious psychological illness (not only bipolar, but also like anxiety, depression, burn-out, OCD etc), and hence the movie is actually doing a disservice to anyone in this condition.In order to arrive at the happy ending described in the movie (which of course I wish to anyone going through such an ordeal), a huge effort, courage, support, treatment, discipline and time is needed in real life and I am sorry to say it does not happen by taking a bit of dancing lessons and reading a letter.
Conclusion: good start, after which they throw a bucket of pink confetti over the two broken (now mended) main characters to make the audience feel good.