Making of Silver Linings Playbook

6:00 AM PST 12/4/2012 by Tatiana Siegel

With two producers' deaths, two stars lost (and a delay to film "The Fighter"), there were a few clouds along the way for director David O. Russell's wholly original rom com.

Life doesn't always go according to plan" is the tagline that The Weinstein Co. is using to market its new, offbeat romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook. But it could just as easily serve as the moral for the story behind the making of David O. Russell's movie, which became a breakout hit at the Toronto International Film Festival. There it captured the top Audience Award over such stiff competition as Argo and The Master.