Wonderful character development!

Fantastic!

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

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.

Joy is the story of a strong woman that fights against all odds and wins. The success story of an underdog has been done to death. Joy works because it is a real story and it works because it has Jennifer Lawrence in it. It is the story of a woman that believes in her dream and does everything she can to make it possible. Joy inspires people to follow their dream. Her story helps those people who are slightly scared to take a leap. She comes across as identifiable. Jennifer Lawrence does a great job as a common woman and she looks gorgeous.

Movie Review: "Joy" (2015)Director David O. Russell pays his dues to actress Jennifer Lawrence in an actress leading screen story involving a young woman in her early 20s encountering the harsh world of business affairs from Massachusetts to Texas, USA before becoming a company owner eventually.Jennifer Lawrence spoiled by an early Academy Award for Best Actress in her role as Tiffany in "Silver Linings Playbook" (2012) plays with her self-reflected stardom, especially on the U.S. domestic market, in a X-mas 2015 releasing family drama comedy genre mix. The actress' three year in a row collaborating director of trust puts the actress in situation of struggle with surrounding family members as actress Virgina Madsen, giving the non-stop soap-opera indulging mother Terry, Robert De Niro, as new-love finding grandpa Rudy, meeting charming scenes with actress Isabella Rossellini. The ex-husband, performed by Edgar Ramírez a down-on-discipline musician, creating two children with Joy, who becomes over-powered by daily decision-making before finding her job calling at an local television broadcaster, meeting an all-to-fair playing character of Neil, portrayed by long-time collaborating acting colleague Bradley Cooper. The ensemble cast pushes through fully-owned picture by actress Jennifer Lawrence, who digs deeper into humorist sides with selling floor-cleaning sweeping mobs on a supermarket parking lot, shooting a shotgun in factory back-lots and fighting back on blueprint stealing competitors to come out as victor in unless diverting motion picture entertainment with nothing really to complain on.Nevertheless director David O. Russel keeps Jennifer Lawrence pampered in safe precaution acting beats, not letting his darling actress explore new grounds, blocking the character of Joy at no time for a real danger climatic confrontation; a circumstance that director Darren Aronofsky used for himself in the in-balanced received art-house film "mother!" (2017) due to a catastrophically-prepared female lead that the presumption becomes evident that Director Gary Ross has been Jennifer Lawrence only benefactor through years of a young acting career in casting her as Everdeen Katniss in the world-changing smash hit of 2012 "The Hunger Games".© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

I was not drawn to Joy when it was first released because it just looked like a made for TV movie. I was surprised when Jennifer Lawrence was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance and still had no real desire to see Joy. Joy popped up on my new releases list on Apple TV today so I thought I would just watch the first 10 minutes to get an idea whether it would be watching or not. After 10 minutes I knew this was worth watching so my husband and I watched it and to both of our surprise we really liked it. Jennifer Lawrence was outstanding in her role as Joy. I've always thought Lawrence was an amazing actress since I saw her in Winter's Bone. She is the real deal. She is destined for more success with each film she is in. DeNiro is amazing as always. It is a wonderful story that should have received better reviews. I can understand why it wasn't a box office hit but it is definitely worth watching.