Director – David O Russell
Staring – Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper.
Joy is based on a true story of a divorce mother who was determined to realise her dreams of seeing her inventions becoming successful. It is a domestic family drama with 4 generations of a family living together, in any spare bit of space in a small house. As a child Joy was always inventing things but initially in adulthood she spends her time looking after her family. During this time she sees a problem with normal mops and invents a better type of mop. The story then follow how she gets funding, through to selling them on QVC and how she progresses in the future.
It was an interesting story and I wasn’t familiar with the story of Joy Mangano before and it made me want to find out more about the story behind the film.
7/10