Joy

Directed by Bob de Broise, Elizabeth Holly Hurt · 2011

Fifteen-year-old Joy has fended for herself for weeks when her mother returns, and a new lover sparks a fierce struggle for her affection.

A raw coming-of-age portrait of a teenager fighting for a mother who keeps slipping away.

Joy, 15, grew up in difficult family circumstances and learned from a young age to fight for herself. For three weeks Joy has been by herself when suddenly her mother Martina, who had not come home after a date, shows up

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