Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro can't keep away from each other - or from Philly
The "Limitless" co-stars are returning to town to shoot David O. Russell's "The Silver Linings Playbook," to be joined by Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Tucker.
Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro can’t keep away from each other – or from Philly
Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Columnist and Critic
Bradley Cooper. Robert De Niro. Philadelphia. It's a love triangle that just won't quit. Next month, the two stars -- teamed in Limitless, which was mostly shot here -- are heading back to Phillywood to make The Silver Linings Playbook. Adapted from the sharp, funny Matthew Quick novel about a high school teacher who suffers a breakdown, goes off to a mental clinic, returns home to live with Mom, has trouble patching things up with his wife and tumbles for the sister-in-law of a good friend, The Silver Linings Playbook is being helmed by David O. Russell, Oscar nominated earlier this year for The Fighter. Cooper and De Niro head the roster, along with X-Men: First Class and Winter’s Bone star Jennifer Lawrence. (Cooper is the perplexed protagonist, Pat Peoples; De Niro his dad, and Lawrence the girl Pat pursues, who has her own problems.) Chris Tucker has also been cast, according to Variety, playing an ward-mate buddy of Cooper's.
Cooper, of course, hails from Rydal, just outside the city, and attended Germantown Academy.
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