Silver Linings Playbook

Silver Linings Playbook is a 2012 American romantic comedy-drama written and directed by David O. Russell. The film is based on Matthew Quick's 2008 novel The Silver Linings Playbook. It stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, with Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker, John Ortiz, Shea Whigham, Anupam Kher and Julia Stiles in supporting roles. The film is set in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania. Cooper plays Patrizio "Pat" Solitano Jr., a man with bipolar disorder who is released from a psychiatric hospital and moves back in with his parents (De Niro and Weaver). Pat is determined to win back his estranged wife. He meets a young widow, Tiffany Maxwell (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 situations. Silver Linings Playbook premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2012, and was released in the United States on November 16, 2012. The film opened to critical acclaim, with praise for Russell's direction, and the performances of Cooper, and Lawrence. It grossed $236.4 million worldwide. A recipient of several accolades, it received eight nominations at the 85th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, with Lawrence winning the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, OK? I'm sorry. I'll fix all this, OK?

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(PANTS THEN SIGHS)

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That was a messed-up thing you did, Dr Patel. I'm sorry, but that's... - (PATEL) You can call me Cliff. - Yeah, Cliff, that's not the way to meet people, OK? Why don't you write that in...? I don't know, a little book? Sorry. I wanted to see if it was still a trigger for you. Bravo, it's a trigger.

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- I'm not gonna take meds. - You have to. No, I'm not gonna. It makes me foggy...

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- You have to. - I don't want to need meds. I'm sorry. Look, I am not the explosion guy, OK? (SIGHS)

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My father is the explosion guy. I'm not that guy. He got kicked out of that stadium. He beat up people, he's on the exclusion list. - I had one incident. - But one incident can change a lifetime.

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But I'm ready. I'm ready to take responsibility for my side of the street. - She just needs to take responsibility. - What's hers? - What's hers? - Mm-hm. Are you joking?

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Well, let's go back to the incident.

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I come home from work after I left early, which I never do, but I got in a fight with Nancy, the principal. I come home and what's playing? The song. The song that you so charmingly played out here for us. That's playing. I don't think anything of it. I should have.

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I come home, what do I see? I walk in the door and I see underwear and clothing, a guy's pants with his belt. And I walk up the stairs and I see the DVD player. On the player is the CD playing the song. And then I look down and I see my wife's panties. And then I look up and see her in the shower. I think, "That's sweet. She's in the shower. Perfect. "I'll go in. We never fuck in the shower anymore. Maybe today we will." I pull the curtain back and there's the fucking history teacher with tenure. (STEVIE WONDER'S "MY CHERIE AMOUR" PLAYING)

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And you know what he says to me?

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"You should probably go." That's what he says.

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So,yeah,I snapped. I almost beat him to death. But I get chastised for it? And I'm parallel to my father? I don't think so. All right. Can you talk about something that you did before or after?

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Week before the incident, I called the cops and I told them my wife and the guy were embezzling money from the local high school, which...

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...wasn't true. It was a delusion.

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And we later found out from the hospital that's because I'm, uh...

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Undiagnosed bipolar.

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Yeah. With mood swings and weird thinking brought on by severe stress, which rarely happens, thank God.

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And the shower incident happened, everything snapped, so I then realised that, "Oh, wow, I've been dealing with this my whole life." And without any supervision, I've been doing it all on my own with no help. And basically, I've been like white-knuckling it this whole time.

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- That had to be hard. - Yeah, it's a lot to deal with, especially when you don't know what is happening, which I do now. Sort of. (DOLORES) You have to take your medication.

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