Yeah, Jennifer Lawrence doesn’t need the X-Men movies anymore. And fortunately The Hunger Games series is over this year (well, it’s supposed to be, anyway). The only franchise that this actress needs to stick with is the one where she’s starring alongside Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro for writer-director David O. Russell. This team, which previously worked together on Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, has reunited for Joy, and the title is an apt word for how its first trailer makes me feel.
Honestly, I don’t even completely love either of the foursome’s two other movies together. But Lawrence is incredible in them, and she looks like she’s going to give another amazing — probably Oscar-nominated — performance here. It appears to be more of her showcase, too, so she won’t be as balanced against Cooper and others in the ensemble. Joy centers on her character, the real-life inventor and entrepreneur Joy Mangano, who is best known for the Miracle Mop.
De Niro plays her father and Cooper plays a Home Shopping Network exec. Also in the movie are Edgar Ramirez, as Joy’s (eventually ex) husband, Diane Ladd as (I think) Joy’s grandmother, Virginia Madsen as (I think) her mother and Isabella Rosellini as an unnamed character whom we see dancing with De Niro.
Here is the official synopsis of the movie:
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.
Joy opens on Christmas, because with a name like that it kind of has to.
Watch the real Joy in an ad for the Miracle Mop, an HSN segment and her ALS ice bucket challenge video.
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