` ` Silver Linings Playbook '' is a comedy about clinical depression . He 's touched on incest ( `` Spanking the Monkey '' ) , adoption ( `` Flirting with Disaster '' ) , the Gulf War ( `` Three Kings '' ) , drug dependency ( `` The Fighter '' -- not exactly a comedy , but a film with as many laughs as most ) , and even existential despair ( `` I Heart Huckabees '' ) . The film stars Bradley Cooper , Robert De Niro , Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Tucker . Tucker calls it ` ` an ' ' ' ''
` ` Silver Linings Playbook '' is a comedy about clinical depression . The film stars Bradley Cooper , Robert De Niro , Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Tucker . Tucker calls it ` ` an ' ' ' ''