Silver Linings Playbook: Movie Review

Silver Linings Playbook is a 2012 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by David O. Russell, Cooper plays Patrick "Pat" Solatano, Jr., a man with bipolar disorder who is released from a psychiatric hospital and moves back in with his parents, played by Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver. Determined to win back his estranged wife, Pat meets recently widowed Tiffany Maxwell, portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence, who offers to help him get his wife back if he enters a dance competition with her. The two become closer as they train and Pat, his father, and Tiffany examine their relationships with each other as they cope with their issues.
Pat Solitano used to be a high school history teacher, married to an English teacher. But he beat up, and nearly killed, a fellow teacher whom he discovered in the shower with his wife. By court order, he was confined for eight months to a psychiatric institution, with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Pat is the main character in Silver Linings Playbook, directed by David O. Russell, who also wrote the screenplay based on a novel by Matthew Quick.
In the film, Pat has completed his compulsory detention. Having no job and nowhere else to live, he goes to stay with
It also involves reading all the books in his wife’s literature courses. Early in the film, Pat is in bed on the top floor of his parents’ house, reading a hardcover copy of Hemingway’s (1929) A Farewell to Arms, which he has borrowed from the library. As he reaches its end, he breaks a window by throwing the book out of it in a fury because Hemingway has the protagonist’s woman-friend die. It’s four o’clock in the morning; Pat wakes his parents by bursting into their bedroom and inveighing against Hemingway. Here, not only is the sleeplessness of bipolar disorder depicted, but also the less frequently discussed lack of consideration for