Joy Page #2

Synopsis: Joy has always been fascinated by creating things, This pursuit was always supported emotionally by her maternal grandmother, Mimi. Joy feels that lack of practical support has led to others making fortunes on ideas she came up with years ago but could not act upon manufacturing. Despite being broke, Joy is the person in her extended family to whom everyone has always turned, in the process forgoing her own life, including not having attended college to help see her parents through their divorce. She works in an unsatisfying job as an Eastern Airlines ticket clerk; and lives with her mother Terry who spends all day in bed watching soap operas; her ex-husband Tony, a less than successful aspiring Latino Tom Jones wannabe; and their two children. Added to this mix is her father Rudy, the owner of a failing heavy-duty garage, which is managed by Joy's older half-sister Peggy, with whom she has somewhat of a strained relationship, and for which Joy does the books. Sharon, Rudy's latest gir
Genre: Drama
Director(s): David O. Russell
Production: 20th Century Fox
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 20 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
59%
PG-13
Year:
2015
124 min
$42,581,369
Website
3,751 Views


what, are you a crazy person?

It's like having a conversation

- with an insane asylum person.

- What else, Captain Jack?

What else was so great?

- Captain Jack?

- Yes, you're Captain Jack, the Flying Jackass.

And do you know what you are?

You're like a gas leak.

- We don't smell you, we don't see you,

- I'm not a gas leak.

- But you're killing us all... silently.

- Retract that!

Tell me what else

you did with Sharon!

You Creature from the Black Lagoon.

No! This conversation is over!

Oh, my god, here it goes,

watch out, Joy, he's gonna snap!

Aw, please, you want me to snap,

that's your whole routine.

- You want to...

- Do I have a vagina?

- Hey, Terry!

- Stop.

- Like this?

- Dad, no!

How's this for snapping?

- NO!

- How this?

- This is snapping.

- Dad!

- Okay?

- You're disturbed!

You're a disturbed man!

- I'm disturbed!

- He's a damaged man!

You're right, I AM disturbed!

You're The Great Disturber!

I'm sorry, Honey,

I don't like this.

You're not supposed to see this

kind of thing, I'm very, very sorry,

- I apologize sincerely...

- It's not gonna happen, okay?

We got other investors.

- Okay, I'm gonna clean all this up.

- Dad, no, don't clean it up.

Dad, stop! Just don't! Okay?

What do you say?

Stop! I'll do it!

I just wanna get you out of this room.

Thank you.

Hi, Guys,

I'm sorry about all the yelling.

Mimi's gonna take you

to the birthday party, okay?

Hi, My Sweethearts.

- You broke things again.

- He did.

I did, I did break some things,

but Grandma was WRONG,

so, I was a LITTLE wrong,

but she was REALLY wrong.

But Grandpa's gonna come stay

with us for a little while.

- Yea!

- Yea!

A sleepover with Grandpa! Yea!

Sharon never separated the wash,

the whites were always gray.

- But you have that magic touch, Sweetheart.

- Yeah.

- Can I give this to you?

- Yeah, I'll take care of it, yea.

- Gotcha back.

- You can put 'em on my ledgers

- and all that stuff, the accounting...

- I know, I'll get them to you later, Dad.

- Love you, Grandpa.

- Love you.

I did your taxes, I did your W-2's.

You suck!

- What is he doing here?

- Sharon brought him back.

So, he's gonna stay with us

until he finds a new love or...

a new place to live.

You know how this goes.

Joy, I can't have your father here.

What do you wanna want me to do,

Tony, I have to work.

I know, Sweetheart, but your father's a nightmare,

we're gonna kill him... I can't...

I can't take it anymore, NITWIT!

That's the end of it!

Dad! Up!

I will KILL myself! I don't like any

of this! I don't like this!

This is not the proper way to be divorced,

the two of you.

You're gonna tell me

how to be divorced?

I'm a provider, Tom Jones,

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David O. Russell

David Owen Russell (born August 20, 1958) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. His early directing career includes the comedy films Spanking the Monkey (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Three Kings (1999) and I ♥ Huckabees (2004). more…

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