I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Purely Joyful Movie!

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Jennifer Lawrence, Edgar Ramirez and Bradley Cooper put in creditable performances. However, the scenes with Robert de Niro and Isabella Rossellini, especially one involving a document signing are poor and contribute to making what good have been a good movie irritating and disjointed. The issues relating to patents were handled in a clumsy and half-hearted way and this could have been played out with more intelligence and intrigue.

This is a film inspired by the life of Joy Mangano (Jennifer Lawrence). It is narrated by her grandmother (Diane Ladd) who always had high hopes for her. Joy had dreams and was very creative, but life happened. Like the cicada she reads about, her life took a 17 year hiatus. Her younger self gives Joy an epiphany in a dream. She was going to create. With the help of her family/friends/extended family/near family, for better or worse, she embarked on manufacturing and making the miracle mop and all the trials and tribulations to get it to market.The success of her career is told as an addendum. An academy award winning cast took a simple life story and made it exciting...as well as the added Hollywood dramatization.Guide: No f-bombs, sex, or nudity. Spoiler: Jennifer Lawrence and Bradly Cooper do not play lovers in this film.

She asks her father for a favour... and it isn't even HIS money! She only sells to begin with because a friend manufactures a call to ease her into her spiel, and she blames her sister because the parts makers overcharge... I don't know about innovation, but all those things definitely take some big, brass balls! All of her success with the WonderMop is down to other people's sacrifices.It's kind of a dispiriting message, if what it tells us is people with this kind of chutzpah are the only ones who ever really succeed in business, even when they're ordinary... You look at the details, and there's not much cause for elation, at all...There's certainly something to be said for a wipe-clean sense of shame, though!

Joy is the story of the title character, who rose to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty.I must admit I wasn't really interested in this film in the beginning the joy and trailer didn't make this film sound that interesting. I ended up finding a copy of it and decided to give it ago, I was so impressed with what I saw. David O. Russell has crafted a really fascinating and special film. It is a film about strength and perseverance fighting for what you want and never giving up until you get it. It really feels like a fairy tale, Joy's grandmother narrates the story, it reminded me of a Cinderella story or Wizard of OZ, it has a magical quality to it. It looks at how as children we have dreams of what we want to be or do when we grow up, then life happens and we forget what it was we original wanted. Everyone does a great job here, Jennifer Lawrence really carries the movie you really feel for her and the situations her family put her in. I feel she really deserved her Oscar Nomination for this role. I felt really inspired after watching this.