Joy

[peter]

Saw this Jennifer Lawrence biopic of the trials and tribulations of QVC television saleswoman Joy Mangano, as she struggles to get what was eventually a multi-million pound business off the ground with her self-produced household cleaning gadget - The Miracle Mop. The film was good enough, Lawrence did a capable job as the brow-beaten head of a dysfunctional family, and the production was adequate.......but there was alas, something missing. The charachters were just not such that you warmed to them, and while you cheered Mangano when she proved her toughness in a hard cut and thrust business world - you just couldn't much like her. At the end of the film a telling little voice-over spills the beans on an [in all likely hood] vicious family dispute for controll of the company - an area the film does not [and probably does well not] to explore.

Bradley Cooper is pretty underused and DeNiro is really just coasting and it is left to lawrence to pull the whole thing along and bring it to a satisfactory conclusion. All in all, I'm glad I saw it - but I won't rush out to see it again.