Not to be confused with 2015 Jennifer Lawrence movie, Joy on Netflix is a new 2024 movie starring Thomasin McKenzie that offers a crash course on the history of in vitro fertilization, or IVF.
Directed by Ben Taylor, with a screenplay by Jack Thorne, Joy—which began streaming on Netflix today—takes viewers back to England in the ’60s and ’70s, when a team of two doctors and a nurse were working tirelessly to help solve the problem of infertility. Starring Bill Nighy, Thomasin McKenzie, and James Norton, Joy is both an entertaining and educational watch. I know I learned a lot about the history of IVF.
But this is still a Hollywood movie, and we know Hollywood movies sometimes take liberties with the facts. Read on to learn more about the Joy true story, IVF, and Thomasin McKenzie’s character, Jean Purdy.
The Netflix movie Joy is based on the true story
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