Joy

Unfortunately, most of the good stuff in this one was in the preview.  It all seemed a little too tightly edited.  Maybe too much narration was the problem.  But for a movie about a shopping channel success story, I guess you should not expect too much.  Maybe it should've been made for TV, maybe put it on the Lifetime channel.  Maybe straight to DVD and sell it on the shopping network?  There definitely were some good performances though, but it all seemed too slick to me.  Joy is this amazingly smart heroine, her grandmother says that she is supposed to save the family, she seems to help everyone in the family all the time and does not take care of herself.   She lives with her ex husband, her mother, her father, which means that Joy's mother is also living with her ex-husband.  She has to work hard, is taken advantage of, but then prevails and sells her inventions on the television.  Yeah!