What does a white businesswoman, who has a net worth of 50 million US Dollar, do before she hits the 60 (not just on her bank account but also in years of age)?

Rating: 2/10 (9 January 2016)

Exactly, she gathers a budget of exactly that amount in order to produce a movie that celebrates herself. The Masturbation of Joy Mangano is an entrepreneurial success story that brings every capitalist by heart to the edge of their cinema seats. The trailer promised a heart-warming story of a young woman who set out to become an inventor and who against all odds risked everything she had in order to make her dream come true. That this invention turned out to be a self-wringing mop and her dream to become Americas Number One home shopping queen on television is less disappointing than the way it is portrayed by the awarded American film director, screenwriter, and producer David Owen Russell, who we know from tear dropping movies such as Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and The Fighter (2010). Even Jennifer Lawrence who we love from movies such as the Hunger Games, in which she performed the role of the rebellious yet empathic fighter who led the revolution against authority, the government and corruption, was seemingly uncomfortable in the role of Americas 1% self-glorification.
The American Dream of the 21st century has a new face, Joy Mangano, portrayed in a movie that tried to be funny, dramatic and courageous but somehow managed to not be any of these. Still, it is entertaining indeed – like a circus, which makes you laugh for the wrong reason and then reminds you that you should not be supporting this.
If we are looking for movies that encourage people to stand up for what they believe in and pursue a honest and rebellious life there are probably better ones to come in 2016 than the story of a white New Yorker woman who in-depth herself on the costs of her children to benefit the American economy. Now I am off to see the Hunger Games again, as fiction these days seems to be a much more honest inspiration than the, at the same time released, memoir of a millionaire.