Joy

“In America, the ordinary needs the extraordinary every single day.”

Joy Mangano (Jennifer Lawrence) is a divorced mother in Long Island sketching inventions while her ex-husband Tony (Edgar Ramírez) plays music in the basement. She wants to get her self-wringing mop design on the market and pitches it to a home-shopping executive named Neil Walker (Bradley Cooper). David O. Russell builds momentum through her determination, cutting between pitched dreams and cramped reality.