Who would you want to star in the movie of your life? That's a question single mom Joy Mangano never thought she'd be asked. But when Jennifer Lawrence was tapped to play her in the new film Joy, she couldn't have been more pleased.

It's the perfect meeting of superpowers: shopping-TV's star moneymaker (Joy can clean up $1 million an hour on HSN) and Hollywood's It girl. This truly dynamic duo joined forces to tell Joy's inspiring rags-to-riches story of how some serious elbow grease, ingenious thinking, and pure grit helped the nice girl finish first.

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