Joy

Gene: Drama

In 1989, Joy Mangano is a divorced mother of two, working as a booking clerk for Eastern Airlines. She lives with her two young children, her mother Terri, her grandmother Mimi, and her ex-husband Tony in working-class Quogue, New York. Her parents are divorced, and her mother and father fight whenever her father shows up at her home. Joy′s older half-sister, Peggy, is an overachiever who constantly humiliates Joy in front of her children. Peggy and Joy′s father Rudy are very close. Terri spends all day lying in bed watching soap operas as a means of escape from her life, leaving Joy to run the household. Only Joy′s grandmother and her best friend Jackie encourage her to pursue her inventing ambitions and become a strong successful woman. Movies Drama.