From scintillating stories of 1970s con artists to cruel tales of pre-Civil War slavery, the past year proved to be a wonderful year for film lovers. Ticket holders were treated to Martin Scorsese's corporate greed-driven The Wolf of Wall Street, David O. Russell's star-studded crime flick American Hustle, Steve McQueen's epic historical drama 12 Years a Slave, and many…
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In Silver Linings Playbook, impossibly good-looking people are damaged and dysfunction, and they speak a specific language that only those occupied with equal types of delusion can understand. Directed by David O. Russell (I Heart Huckabees; last year’s The Fighter), Silver Linings Playbook stars Bradley Cooper (the disheveled heartthrob from The Hangover) as Pat Solatano,…