Joy

Summary: Joy is the story of the title character, who rose to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty.

Release Date: December 25, 2015

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: David O. Russell

Writers: David O. Russell

, Annie Mumolo

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Fox 2000 Pictures, Annapurna Pictures, Davis Entertainment

Distributor: Hotstar, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, KVH Media Group

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 56,451,232

International: $ 44,682,827

Box office:

Budget:$60MDomestic:$56.5MInternational:$44.7MWorldwide:$101.1M

Box office International:

Source: The Numbers

-3%

The Rotten Tomatoes audience rated this -3% lower than the critics.

60%57%

The Metacritic audience rated this 9% higher than the critics.

Metacritic Meta:

56/100

Metacritic User:

65/100

56%28%

56% of the Stars & Main Cast are Female.

28% of the Stars & Main Cast are "diverse."

White72.22%Latino16.67%Black5.56%Mixed / Other5.56%

2.00

Possibly woke elements:

interracial,interracial relationship,female inventor

BechdeltestPassed!

Commonsensemedia

Message3/5
Role model3/5
Violence2/5
Sex1/5
Language3/5
Consumerism3/5
Drugs1/5

Dove

Sex1/5
Language3/5
Violence1/5
Drugs2/5
Other2/5

This film gets a 2.00/5 family friendly score

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CONTENT BREAKDOWN

Methodology

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60%57%

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OFDb:

Wokeness

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Cast

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Representation

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Production

Race	White	Total	Visuals	Info
Familysearch	3	3
Kairos	2	2		A third party facial recognition software company we used to maintain objectivity. Upload images to the facial recognition demo page to check the veracity of our data set. Or use their API and do a bulk peer review if you'd like. Source: https://www.kairos.com/demos
Surname	1	1		A third party free program that uses US Census data to create an algorithm that analyzes surnames and guesses what ethnicity the person is. Obviously there are issues with this data set such as African Americans who have the last names of their ancestors' slave owner. However, when no other data set is available, this can give a rough estimate and expand the data pool for the less important cast members with no IMDb or TMDb image. Please consider downloading their source code via GitHub to verify the accuracy of our data set, and to peer review our conclusions. Source: https://pypi.org/project/ethnicolr/
Forebears	1	1
Total	7	7
Cast Percentages	100%	100%	{"name":"Cast Percentages","series":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":""}
U.S. Population (2020) Percentage	57.84%		{"name":"U.S. Population (2020)","series":[{"name":"White","y":57.84,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Arab","y":0.54,"color":"#DF5353"},{"name":"Asian","y":6,"color":"#90ee7e"},{"name":"Black","y":12.4,"color":"#f45b5b"},{"name":"Indian","y":1.35,"color":"#7798BF"},{"name":"Indigenous","y":1.12,"color":"#aaeeee"},{"name":"Latino","y":18.73,"color":"#eeaaee"},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":9.32,"color":"#55BF3B"},{"name":"Jewish","y":2.02,"color":"#ff0066"}],"prefix":""}	Source: US Census (Note: Racial and ethnic categories overlap so the sum will not equal 100%.)
U.S. Population (2020) Representation	+42.16		{"name":"U.S. Population (2020)","series":[["White",57.84]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
U.S. Buying Power (2018) Percentage	74.35%		{"name":"U.S. Buying Power (2018)","series":[{"name":"White","y":12147700000000,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":1013300000000,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":1300200000000,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":114600000000,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":1539000000000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":224700000000,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":0,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	Source: Selig Center, University of Georgia
U.S. Buying Power (2018) Representation	+25.65		{"name":"U.S. Buying Power (2018)","series":[["White",74.35]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Percentage	65.34%		{"name":"U.S. Average Individual Income (2018)","series":[{"name":"White","y":11825174998483,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":1360705388565,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":1706765993728,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":164296821776,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":1721419354421,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":1318328353188,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":0,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	Source: IPUMS-CPS, University of Minnesota
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Representation	+34.66		{"name":"U.S. Average Individual Income (2018)","series":[["White",65.34]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
World population (2019) Percentage	14.24%		{"name":"World population (2019) ","series":[{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":14688882870,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":42991259469,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":10971786583,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"White","y":108889096410,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":110601821551,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":238860161621,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":67406299429,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":167470202093,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":2568698093,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":""}	NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World population (2019) Representation	+85.76		{"name":"World population (2019) ","series":[["White",14.24]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
World Buying Power Percentage	36.48%		{"name":"World Buying Power","series":[{"name":"White","y":3010602822170000,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":771525888400000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":91700962050000,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":526264226360000,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":174285727610000,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":148984454560000,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":526400066100000,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":2431392083750000,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":572687873900000,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World Buying Power Representation	+63.52		{"name":"World Buying Power","series":[["White",36.48]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
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This film gets a 2/5 family friendly score

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IMDb Rating https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2446980/parentalguide last updated: 2024-10-25Update data
Commonsensemedia Rating https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/joy last updated: 2024-10-25Update data
Message 3/5	Perseverance is a major theme. If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again -- and don't let anyone take away your dreams.
Role model 3/5
Violence 2/5	A woman cuts her hands on broken glass; her palms are shown bloodied. A couple insults each other and argues loudly in front of their grown child and young grandchildren. In a dream sequence, a woman is chloroformed and kidnapped. Joy goes to an outdoor shooting range to release stress; a TV soap opera character also holds a gun.
Sex 1/5	Some kissing and innuendo.
Language 3/5	Mostly on the milder side ("ass," and such), but there's one use of "f--k." A woman gives someone the finger.
Consumerism 3/5	Joy's own Miracle Mop product is featured prominently (as expected); other brands/labels seen include QVC, HSN, K-Mart, Mercedes Benz, Campbell's soup, Polo by Ralph Lauren, Fox TV, and Embassy Suites.
Drugs 1/5	Some social drinking.
Dove Rating https://dove.org/review/11710-joy/
Faith 0/5	None
Sex 1/5	A salesman drops an innuendo about a mop that can be pulled and twisted when traveling on the road.
Language 3/5	G/OMG-15; F-1; D-2; Jackass-1; You suck-1
Violence 1/5	A woman has a gun in a soap opera; a man tells another man if he touches his microphone, he will kill him; an angry woman shoves a paper in a woman's face at her job; guys shoot beer bottles in target practice; a woman cuts her hand while cleaning up a broken wine bottle, and some blood is on her two hands.
Drugs 2/5	Drinking at a wedding reception; champagne; the drinking of red wine.
Nudity 0/5	None
Other 2/5	A woman remembers her parents splitting up when she was a little girl; tension between characters; sibling rivalry; death and grief.

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