Silver Linings Playbook is a story about two troubled adults (with family and friends dealing with abundant problems of their own) trying to find a suitable and sustainable equilibrium.

The cast is terrific.  I am a fan of Jennifer Lawrence since Winter’s Bone (possibly my favorite film of 2010), have never thought much about Bradley Cooper before but will after this, and Robert DeNiro, Jacki Weaver, and others are equally memorable.  There is not a false step among the performances.

I think writer-director David O. Russell is enormously talented and am particularly fond of his 2010 film The Fighter.  That film, along with some others he has made, are easy for me to analyze in an appreciative, heartfelt way but with a level of emotional distance I don’t have yet for Silver Linings Playbook.

It is highly likely this movie will land in my upcoming list of ten 2012 favorites, but it touched me so deeply and tells such a complex story (that appears deceptively simple on the surface) that I don’t want to write about it yet in any detail.

This unwillingness on my part to reveal the nexus of my feelings is an unusual response for me to any film I care about, and I encourage you to see it and judge for yourself.

Silver Linings Playbook is wonderful.