Part I Review “Silver Linings Playbook” Bradley Cooper’s performance in David O. Russell’s “Silver Linings Playbook” is surely one we can enjoy the pleasure of witnessing on screen of all the movies we’ve seen him in. In addition to Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro help aid in keeping our eyes peeled open not wanting to miss a second. They all bring a human experience to real human situations. We are all a little crazy to an extent right? We all have our trials and tribulations, some worse than others but deep down there’s something within us that helps us get through - it’s that within us that makes us human. Cooper plays a former teacher named Pat Solitano Jr.,an undiagnosed bipolar patient