'Silver Linings Playbook' Shows Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, Crazy and in Love (Video)

Here's how you know the difference between real life and a movie: Two emotionally damaged, vulnerable people, both living at home well into adulthood, engage in a strange romance that only they can understand; also, they just so happen to look exactly like the Most Beautiful Man in the World and Hollywood's hottest young star.

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Such is the premise of The Silver Linings Playbook, the upcoming indie venture from The Fighter and I Heart Huckabees director David O. Russell. Bradley Cooper takes on the role of a just-released mental patient who returns back home to reclaim his life, mind and physical fitness; while Jennifer Lawrence plays a disturbed younger neighbor who stalks him down, but has a dark allure that he can't resist.

The first trailer offers plenty of opportunities for Cooper to mix his trademark sarcasm with a pathos he displayed in Limitless, resulting in a welcome blend of nervous humor. It also allows Lawrence to channel some of her darker indie film moments, such as those from Winter's Bone, and mix them with a more suburban, emo sensibility.

Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver co-star as Cooper's exasperated parents.