Matthew Quick’s terrific 2008 novel The Silver Linings Playbook was a jaggedly funny, often unsettling first-person story of a man trying to return to normalcy after a traumatic event leads to a ...

Though his role in David O. Russell’s “Silver Linings Playbook” is a supporting one, producer Donna Gigliotti insists that without Robert De Niro’s participation, the movie wouldn’t exist. “David ...

In David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, Pat Solitano returns to his childhood home in Philadelphia years after a violent episode that helped end his marriage and earned him a stretch in a ...

For some movies, a film festival spotlight can feel like a third-degree burn. A picture of modest virtues, like David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, may trip on the red carpet and wilt in the ...

“Silver Linings Playbook” follows Pat (Bradley Cooper) and Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), as they’re both getting back up after their lowest points. Pat was institutionalized for eight months after ...

When films are good, actors and directors get a lot of the credit that should go to the screenwriters. In the case of “Silver Linings Playbook,” which is one of the best films of the year, there is a ...

Silver Linings Playbook Two emotionally-crippled-but-scruffily-gorgeous mental cases (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence) meet, hate each other, gradually fall in love and then teach us all Valuable ...

13 years after Jennifer Lawrence stepped onto the stage at the Academy Awards for Silver Linings Playbook, that defining ...

David O. Russell's romantic comedy about mental illness, dance, and the Philadelphia Eagles, Silver Linings Playbook, won the affections of the International Press Academy this weekend, practically ...