Silver Linings Playbook.

- Silver Linings Playbook: my most overrated film | Film | The Guardian:
Playbook - a set of rules or suggestions that are considered to be suitable for a particular activity, industry, or job.

...they’re damaged goods.

That's because he's determined to repair the damage he's done to his life and surprise everyone by moving ever onward and upward.
His motto is, "Excelsior!"
What stage of bipolar disorder would you guess he's in?

Robert De Niro as a father...who doesn't realize is an apple who has fallen very close to the tree.

Seeing as the film tackles the stranglehold mental illness can have on a person and their ultimate outlook on life, its integrity seems ​based on this alone, stealing focus from the painfully lame points of the piece.
Mental illness in the 2010s is what prosthetic noses; weight gain and monster-size uglification were in the noughties.
But should this treatment of challenging subject matter really allow Silver Linings Playbook to tower over the rest, especially when it schools its audience on the fact that there’s nothing like finding one new love to replace another, and there’s nothing like love to cure any debilitating mental illness?
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