David O. Russell

Director · Producer · Writer

'Joy': David O. Russell's Feminist Godfather

'Joy': David O. Russell's Feminist Godfather

In the era of television, Susan Lucci reigns supreme. In Joy, David O. Russell's latest movie, the Mangano household, an alternate universe of domestic dysfunction, Joy's mom Terry has taken to bed, and to watching a soap with Lucci in the lead. A gun is an option for solving the soap's operatic greed....more

Jennifer Lawrence and David O. Russell with Maureen Dowd

 
 

Jennifer Lawrence and David O. Russell with Maureen Dowd

Join Academy Award™-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence and Oscar™ nominated director-writer-producer David O. Russell when they talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Op-Ed columnist Maureen Dowd about their creative collaboration – from “American Hustle” and “Silver Linings Playbook” to their new movie “Joy.” Like Russell’s previous films, “Joy,” which also stars Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper, defies genre to tell a story of family, loyalty and love.