Story nearly sunk by cak-handed treatment

Rating: 5/10 (9 January 2016)

Why oh why oh why do we have to be submitted to the ignorant delivery of a female story as 're-written' by a blo**y man? This is the big failing of this production. The screenplay and direction are appallingly wrong. The story runs like a paint by numbers story board with barely any dialogue given to the principal character Joy. What? This woman, who knows she has a fight on her hands the moment she decides she's going to bring a new innovation to market, says hardly a thing when the inevitable problems start surfacing? No No NO. There are some fab actors in good roles in this production but, they can't deliver superb performances if they have no material to work with. David O Russell inserts an incompetent QVC presenter Todd who nearly sinks Joy's product. Well, David O Russell, you nearly sunk this story. A shame for everyone else connected with this film.