Joy is the wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who
founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right.
Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss
of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce. Allies
become adversaries and adversaries become allies, both inside and
outside the family, as Joy’s inner life and fierce imagination carry her
through the storm she faces. Jennifer Lawrence stars, with Robert De
Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramirez, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Ladd,
and Virginia Madsen. Like David O. Russell’s previous films, Joy defies genre to tell a story of family, loyalty, and love.
David Russell did yet another great job with this movie. He has an uncanny way of portraying the most dysfunctional families but make you totally identify with them in every way. The movie really is about Joy though and her determination to succeed. Usually movies like this become very heart string pulling and melodramatic but this movie doesn't end up like that. You really enjoy watching Joy's rise with nothing but doubters around her. It was a very feel good movie that was not done in the usual or formula way feel good movies are done.
I would definitely recommend people checking this movie out. It was very enjoyable watch and further entrenched Jennifer Lawrence as the go to actress of this generation.
