Silver Lining Playbook

COMING SOON: David O Russell's Silver Lining Playbook (US, 2012) - Unique, beguiling, and occasionally frustrating: These descriptions equally apply to Silver Linings Playbook and its two central characters, a bipolar man fresh out of an institution and a depressed woman reeling from her husband’s death. This romantic comedy-drama from director David O. Russell represents a merger of the two sides of his filmmaking personality — the freewheeling spirit of his early indies (Flirting With Disaster) and the more traditional crowd-pleasing tone of The Fighter — and even if the mixture doesn’t always gel perfectly, the brave, resonant performances from Bradley Cooper and a never-better Jennifer Lawrence go a long way to selling the movie’s bold beating heart. 2012TOR People Choice Award Winner.