Jeanelle Driver's List: OVA Silver Linings Playbook

• • Qualities I can attain from FSU

• or talk with Matthew one-on-one, or listen to him address a room full of advocates for those who suffer from mental illness, get to know him.  Either in print or in person, his humor, humanity, and warmth soon overtake you. Matthew, like his book, engages you, tells his story, and leaves you warm and fulfilled at the end.” – Dr. Len Altamura, Former President/CEO, Steininger Behavioral Care Services Inc., Cherry Hill, NJ

• Matthew Quick takes us inside Pat’s mind, deftly showing us the world from his distorted yet endearing perspective. The result is a touching and funny story that helps us look at both depression and love in a wonderfully refreshing way.

• While Russell is still gliding on the popularity of last year's "Silver Linings Playbook," which has turned him into an
• activist for the mental health community, he's also got a new feature slated for awards season fervor: "American
• Characters drive his movies more than plot. "My job is to make you love them in spite of all their sins," he told Matthews. "I always start out thinking, 'These people are just despicable,' but when you get close to them, you can always find out how they're very human and very lovable."
  
• It could become a completely full-time job, as could building the post-graduate program for kids who are not college-bound but want to work their way into internships and professions and do it in an inspiring, creative, supportive, therapeutic environment. That doesn't exist, so I'm going to be helping to build that for all those kids who are coming of age.
• he says his happiest hours are when he's working. I can understand that. It's wonderful to be doing work when you feel focused and you know what direction you want to go in.

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• In 2012, filmmaker David O. Russell publicly supported the school's fundraising efforts while promoting his new movie, Silver Linings Playbook. ^[7] and ^[8] Vanity Fair, Barneys New York and Weinstein Co. celebrated "Silver Linings Playbook" in support of the Glenholme School on Wednesday February 20, 2013 as part of pre-Oscar week in Los Angeles. ^[

• Russell's latest film, Silver Linings Playbook, was adapted from the serio-comic novel by Matthew Quick.^[
• The film was inspired by Devereaux Glenholme School, a 12-month special education boarding school in Washington, CT. Russell's son is currently a student there, and Russell stated, "I was so familiar with the issues in the story that I knew how emotional and funny and original it could be. Without this community I would never have made this film." ^[39][40]

• David O. Russell was drawn to the story because of the family relationships, and also because of the connection to his own son, who is bipolar and has OCD.