JOY

Movie:  Joy
Rating:  B+
Time:  2 hours 4 minutes

Jan's Review:  This movie is based on a true story of the young woman, played by Jennifer Lawrence, who invented the Miracle Mop.  It shows all the struggles she had to go through as a single mother with no money, trying to get loans to patent this mop and get it on QVC.  Besides this being a full-time job, her whole family depends on her for everything.  To begin with, they all live with her.  Besides her 2 children, this includes her mother, her father (divorced from her mother). her grandmother, and her ex-husband!  She has more patience than I do!  Robert DiNero plays her father, who finds himself a wealthy girlfriend, who loans part of the money to Jennifer.  Bradley Cooper plays the person on QVC who decides whether the mop goes on TV or not.  I thought this movie was a comedy, but it isn't.  However, It is a very good movie and explains what this poor woman went through to get the mop on TV, then the manufacturer raises their price so high that she is losing money, so she finally gets fed up, goes to Texas where these mops are supposedly being produced, and raises hell like any respectable woman would do.  My sister, Judy, and friend, Gloria, went with me and they also enjoyed the movie.