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Were it not for the fact that I had already read reviews, I would have been shocked by this movie, because it was not, in fact, a comedy. That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed the film. It is neither light nor heavy, but rather the perfect balance.

It addressed the fact that there is no 'following your heart' or doing whatever feels right to you, without affecting other people. Mostly, there will be negative consequences/effects, but when you and the people around you open yourselves to truth, no matter how difficult, healing comes and eventually, a positive effect. I highly recommend this movie.

When this movie was about to come out, I had seen a few lame posters and my husband and I decided it just didn't look appealing enough. Maybe we'd watch it after it was released on DVD. Then, one day I was doing some browsing of reviews (trying to find a movie worth our time) and happened across the reviews for 'John Carter'.

I am ever so glad I did. The reviews touted it as a great film shackled with a stupid company (Disney) and burdened down by extremely bad advertising. As I had witnessed the advertising, I was more than inclined to believe these reviews. From what I read, it sounded like the kind of fantasy I would absolutely love to see and eventually, own (I now do). It also sounded like it was going to be in for a really bad showing in theaters. So, I called up my husband and told him we were going to see that movie, so it would get some support.

We did. It was amazing. I texted all of my friends to go see it, as well and to not be put off by the horrible advertising. The moment the DVD came out, we bought it. I cannot recommend this movie enough and I cannot emphasize enough - don't brush a movie off because of bad advertising or we are just proving how influenced we are by it. Check the reviews and see what your 'peers' say.

I won't give you a long drawn out summary of the movie - you can read other reviews or the actual summary on IMDb if you want that. However, I will say that even though I am a huge fan of Jennifer Lawrence, I expected 'Silver Linings Playbook' to be just like all of the current mush - a fried egg completely raw on one side and burnt black on the other - over-driven, yet underdeveloped, marketed as a drama to hook viewers sick of what now qualifies as a classic chick-flick.

However, I was wrong, thank goodness. This is the movie that should be used as the playbook for all future romantic/drama films. They actually hold off on the sex scenes, instead of trying to fast track your attachment to them - developing the characters themselves and the relationships between the characters emotionally and psychologically. The issues addressed, how the characters handle them and how they are eventually resolved, for me, all echoed of real life silver linings. I am not going to say that you are going to walk away feeling like you've been rammed in the gut - you won't, because this isn't a 'demanding' movie, by any stretch of the imagination. But it is an echo, as if you yelled your life into a canyon, and something like your voice came back, except a bit more warbly and little less clear.

I was left with this lingering feeling of relief, as if the different complicated aspects of life are not so black and white, but at the same time, aren't so gray, either, as morality-mongers and Hollywood would have us believe.

I was sick of watching movies where the characters find true love in the first 20minutes of the film and then have sex as acknowledgment that this is their true love, all the while pretending it's just a fling and the sex meant nothing. I was sick of knowing that the the next 40minutes of the film would focus solely on those same characters running away from each other, while the meaningless (separate) drivel of their (individual) lives is portrayed, as if that would make them deeper to the audience, and and finally, ending up together because 'they just can't be apart', despite the fact that during the movie they learned absolutely nothing personal about each other (apart from sex).

If you are sick of this kind of over-done/under-done movie, then 'Silver Linings Playbook' is for you. Even if you aren't sick of such movies, 'Silver Linings Playbook'is still for you, because you will still love it and in fact, it may even serve as an eye-opener.