Joy Page #11

Synopsis: Joy has always been fascinated by creating things, This pursuit was always supported emotionally by her maternal grandmother, Mimi. Joy feels that lack of practical support has led to others making fortunes on ideas she came up with years ago but could not act upon manufacturing. Despite being broke, Joy is the person in her extended family to whom everyone has always turned, in the process forgoing her own life, including not having attended college to help see her parents through their divorce. She works in an unsatisfying job as an Eastern Airlines ticket clerk; and lives with her mother Terry who spends all day in bed watching soap operas; her ex-husband Tony, a less than successful aspiring Latino Tom Jones wannabe; and their two children. Added to this mix is her father Rudy, the owner of a failing heavy-duty garage, which is managed by Joy's older half-sister Peggy, with whom she has somewhat of a strained relationship, and for which Joy does the books. Sharon, Rudy's latest gir
Genre: Drama
Director(s): David O. Russell
Production: 20th Century Fox
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 20 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
59%
PG-13
Year:
2015
124 min
$42,581,369
Website
4,076 Views


would move into a big, beautiful home.

A roof so plain and bare.

Her mother was... happy.

She remained close to her,

and with the rest of her family...

which was,

as always, complicated.

She would pay for products

made by Rudy, Trudy, and Peggy...

even when they failed,

even when they wrongly sued

for ownership of her company.

As Rudy got older, Joy continued

to take care of him and love him.

As Neil Walker predicted,

Joy did become a whole, new business,

And even out-grew QVC.

- Is talking...

- Is Tony there?

Yeah, Tony's in there,

the whole family's in there.

Her ex-husband and her best friend

would remain her steadfast advisers.

Please be patient.

I love you.

- Good night, Mom.

- I love you.

- I love you, too, Papa

- I love you guys.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- Welcome.

- Thank you.

What do you have?

- A traveling clothes cleaner.

- Let's see it.

- So, you're from Memphis?

Yes, I am.

- You work as a waitress?

- Yes, Ma'am.

All right...

let's see it.

- You made this yourself?

- Yes, I did, Ma'am.

I made my first invention myself, too.

I like this,

a very good design.

Thank you.

Can you stay an extra day,

maybe see our designers?

No, because of your boss.

What hotel are you

staying in right now?

At the Holiday Inn, Ma'am.

The Holiday Inn?

Let's move them over to the Radisson,

get them a suite, they'll be more

comfortable with their baby.

I'll call your boss and

get it taken care of,

give you an extra day so that tomorrow

you can come in, meet with the designers,

- Get tickets, stuff like that, right?

- I get to do that?

We'll work on the idea,

see if we can do something.

This means so much to me.

I know what it feels like.

I know what it feels

like to be in that chair.

- We'll see you tomorrow, okay?

- Thank you.

- And good luck.

- C'mon, Sweetie.

- Thank you.

- Go get the next...

Neil.

Sorry, we have legal

stuff to bury now.

Yes, we do.

- Here we are.

- Here we are.

- Adversaries in commerce.

- Adversaries in commerce.

- And friends.

- Yes, and friends.

I'm gonna tell you somethin',

but you didn't hear it from me.

I don't know WHO you are or

WHAT you're talkin' about.

That's what I wanted to hear.

Barry's gonna come

after you hard.

But that's just business, that's

the way Barry is, he's a negotiator.

Ultimately he needs you,

he's buying HSN.

It's ALL about HSN now, and

he wants you to come with him.

He needs you...

You're gonna be really big over there.

That's what's gonna happen.

But...

you didn't hear from me, right?

No... I sure didn't.

But thank you.

- It's nice to see you.

- It's good to see you.

- I'll see you later, Bud.

- Yeah.

- It's been a long journey.

- Yes, it has.

- I'm proud of you.

- Thank you, Neil.

This right here,

this is a special power.

This is a special power.

And then I started to

build my very own house,

where I would live and

make a wonderful creation,

for all of the world

to see and love.

She didn't know any of this would

happen, as she walked that day.

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David O. Russell

David Owen Russell (born August 20, 1958) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. His early directing career includes the comedy films Spanking the Monkey (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Three Kings (1999) and I ♥ Huckabees (2004). more…

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