Full-Length ‘Joy’ Trailer – “Money, Crime, Betrayal”

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After a rousing first test screening and a secret one last night of a drastically different cut (and with dismal results), the full-length trailer for the highly anticipated Christmas release ” is here. Once again employing a 1960s era song (the first trailer used a choral version of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” this new one features The Ronettes’ “Walking in the Rain” and The Bee Gees’ “To Love Somebody”) As we gathered from the screenings, the film looks to be quite a hearty mix of drama (melo and otherwise), crime, thriller, comedy and kitchen sink. David O. Russell has built a career on films that ride tonal waves of nearly all of these elements before but with Joy he could either be reaching his greatest height or his steepest fall.

Robert De Niro seems to have some juicy material here and Isabella Rossellini really shines with a character that seems dark and treacherous. Not enough of Diane Ladd, our high hopes (and rankings) for a Best Supporting Actress nomination might need to some tinkering. But really, this is Jennifer Lawrence’s show. I’ve never been a huge fan of most of her work, personally, but I really dug her here. That last scene in the trailer was a doozy.

“Never speak, on my behalf…about my business, again.”

Here’s the trailer:

Joy comes out on Christmas Day from 20th Century Fox.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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