Toronto : People's Choice

Silver Linings Playbook, starring Bradley Cooper ,

as a man recovering from a breakdown :

has won the top prize at Toronto International Film Festival.

The Hunger Games' Jennifer Lawrence as Bradley Cooper's love interest.  :wink:

                 

Argo, directed by Ben Affleck, was the People's Choice Award runner up.

The fact-based thriller is about six Amercians stranded in Tehran after the 1979

invasion of the American Embassy :

who plan to escape by masquerading as a Canadian film crew.... ::

Other Toronto winners include Seven Psychopaths,

Colin Farrell as a scriptwriter who falls in with criminals.

Also featuring Christopher Walken and Woody Harrelson........

Previous winners of the People's Choice award include :

The King's Speech and Slumdog Millionaire,

which both went on to Oscar success........