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Silver Linings Playbook:
Director David O. Russell ("The Fighter") delivers his most unabashedly
crowd-pleasing, though still quirky, dramedy. Bradley Cooper stars as a
bipolar teacher struggling toward normal following his wife's
infidelity and his long stint in a mental institution. Then he meets a
grieving widow (Jennifer Lawrence), and his life gradually turns around.
You'll laugh, you'll cry, and even though I'm convinced that Lawrence
deserves a best actress nomination for "The Hunger Games," she's bound
to get one for her modern-day ditzy dame with "Dancing With the Stars"
in her eyes.