Hello, My Name Is Doris

Plot synopsis:
Doris Miller (Sally Field) is a shy, eccentric 60-something woman, living alone following the death of her mother, whom she has lived with for her whole life. At the funeral, her brother Todd (Stephen Root) and his wife (Wendi McLendon-Covey) try to persuade her to sell the house, especially the possessions, as she is a hoarder and has a habit of keeping discarded furniture she finds on the street. Her only close friend is the fiery Roz (Tyne Daly), though she also gets along with Roz's granddaughter. On her way to work, where she has been doing data entry for decades, she meets a younger co-worker, John (Max Greenfield), whom she is immediately infatuated with. Empowered and inspired by cliched self-improvement tapes, Doris decides to go after him.
Doris finds ways to get John's attention, though the attempts are frequently combined with daydream fantasies about a passionate love affair between them. With the help of Roz's granddaughter (Isabella Acres), she creates a fake social media profile in order to find information about him, and discovers that he loves an electropop band that is planning an upcoming concert in the area. Doris buys a CD for the band, which gets John's attention, and attends the concert, where she meets him and they spend time together. The band is intrigued by Doris and invite her backstage, where they spend a fun evening meeting young artists in the area. John tells her that he and his girlfriend recently broke up over text, and asks her about her love life. She reveals that she was engaged in the past, but when her fiance left for a job in Arizona, she had to decline in order to take care of her mother. When they part for the night, John gives her a friendly kiss goodnight, and Doris is in love.
John is distracted for the next week, and Doris discovers that he has a girlfriend, Brooklyn. Though Brooklyn is friendly and charming, and John likes her, Doris is devastated. She spends the night drinking wine, and in a drunken fit of anguish, she posts a comment on John's social media wall while using her fake profile, posing as a scorned young woman whom he had a torrid love affair with. The next morning, Todd arrives with her therapist, planning on decluttering Doris's house, but when his wife tries to throw out a pencil Doris stole from John, she angrily throws them out of her house. Todd tells her that he's disappointed in her, and she retorts that he was never around when their mother needed help. He says that it was what worked out the best for his success, and she tells him that she could have had those opportunities, too.
At work, Brooklyn arrives and has a fight with John before breaking up with him; Brooklyn tells Doris later that she had seen the comment on his wall and accused him of cheating on her, and she admits that she was cheated on in the past. After work, John tells her about the incident and invites her to his Thanksgiving for friends. She agrees, and when he asks her if she'd ever be interested in dating a younger man, she assumes that he is interested in her.
Roz tells Doris that she's deluded and that she's making a huge mistake by going after John, but an infatuated Doris refuses to listen. She dresses up and goes to the Thanksgiving party, where she meets John's uncle, who is clearly interested in her. During the party, she asks to talk to John in his bedroom. While trying to come onto him, she reveals that she's always liked him and that she was the one to put up the comment that drove him and Brooklyn apart. Upset, John rebuffs her, shocked that his friend would break him up with a girlfriend he was so fond of. When a flustered Doris asks him what he meant by asking her if she was interested in younger men, he admits he was trying to set her up with his uncle, who is a decade younger than Doris -- thus, a younger man. A hurt Doris leaves and invites Roz over for comfort.
Doris invites her therapist over to declutter her house, and she succeeds getting it cleaned up. She also quits her job, and says good-bye to John before she leaves. The two end on good terms, John having reconciled with Brooklyn. When Doris goes to the elevator to leave on her last day, John calls her name, races out of his office, and tells her that he really is interested in her and wants to sincerely begin a relationship with her. They kiss, but this is all revealed to be the last one of Doris's fantasies. In reality, alone, she enters the elevator to leave. After hesitating, John calls out her name and runs toward the elevator. The doors close.

Tags: romantic, satire

Review:
I like it, I really really liked it!Academy Award winner, Sally Field proves that she still has the charm and charisma at this stage in life, to headline a young hip movie.
Fields plays, Doris, a seasoned Staten Islander working in accounts at a young trendy business, who develops a crush on the new Art Director who sparks the young at heart feeling Doris needed after spending her youth taking care of a ill mother.
Field brings a lot of respect to Doris, that makes you feel for the character and connect with what she's going through as she pursues her much younger love interest.It's familiar and refreshing all at the same time.
One of the most impressive scenes is when Doris gets photographed (and believe me, Sally Field looks sexy in some of those outfits that she wears).The long and short of it is that "Hello, My Name Is Doris" is a really good movie.
Sally Field's most recent role, Doris Miller, is a worthy addition to her amazing gallery of film performances, given since she emerged as Gidget a half century ago.
Meanwhile, Doris fixates on John Fremont, a much younger man, who is the new art director in her Manhattan office, and, inspired by a motivational speaker named Willy Williams and by countless bodice-busting romance novels, she decides to pursue romantic involvement with the good looking young guy.
While "Hello, My Name is Doris" plays out somewhat predictably, the film provides a showcase for Sally Field in yet another Oscar-worthy performance.In the hands of a less gifted actress, Doris could have been little more than a caricature; a bespectacled woman who wears wigs, has a large bow in her hair, decorates her cubicle with cat calendars, and lives alone in a cluttered house with a cat.
Doris's "Walter Mitty" like day dreams about Fremont are often amusing, but her foray into Facebook stalking takes a dark, unsavory turn.The supporting cast is good, although none overshadow Field's star turn.
Directed and co-written by Michael Showalter, "Hello, My Name is Doris" may have been intended as a fantasy- exploitation film for older women, who seem to dominate the movie's audiences.
Doris (Sally Field) is a 60-something woman who passed up an engagement early in life to remain with her mother on Staten Island.
Through a series of discussions with Doris' best friend Roz (Tyne Daly) and daughter Vivian (Isabella Acres) as well as a meeting with a self-help guru (Peter Gallagher) Doris attempts to court John, even to the extent of attending a punk rock party and other failed attempts and finally has to face the fact that john is only a friend (despite many hilarious fantasies of possible love affairs).
At this point we're 10 minutes or so into the movie, but to tell you more would spoil your viewing experience, you'll just have to see for yourself how it all plays out.Couple of comments: this rom-com is directed by Michael Showalter, best known for writing and starring in the "Wet Hot American Summer" film (and subsequent Netflix prequel series).
The first half of the movie goes for the outright comedy aspects, as we see the Sally Filed character in a number of improbable (including some brought as fantasy) scenes, to the total delight of last night's theater crowd, which went absolutely wild with laughter (more on that later).
Sally Field, now a crisp 69 years young, brings a stellar performance as the perky Doris, completely blowing away Max Greenfield (exactly half her age) as her co-worker John, Beth Behrs (as John's possible flame), and the rest of the cast.
There is a surprising amount of great indie music featured in the movie, including from Pearl and the Beard, Bryan Wells, and a bunch of other unknowns (to me anyway)."Hello, My Name Is Doris" made quite a splash when it was first shown at SXSW 2015, yes exactly a year ago already, Not sure why it's take this long for it to get a general release.
And you also have probably not been closely acquainted with anyone who has lived the profound misery of isolation, emotional dysfunction, and failed parentage that the character portrayed by Ms. Field has.This film is a story of a person who was severely let down by society, by everyone around her, by her own brother, and above all by her sad failure of a mother and all the rest of her so-called family.
Now picture a hilariously kooky Sally Field going through the same motions while being advised by a 13 year old and you have "Hello, My Name Is Doris".Most of the audience members seemed to be upwards of 50, but anyone old enough for romance can relate to the story.
All of her personal struggles make sense for someone her age and with her background, but could also apply to someone in their 30s.The whole cast is amazing and there is great chemistry between Max Greenfield and Sally Field (who is absolutely stunning).
Sally Field & Max Greenfield are both perfectly cast as an older woman and the young man she becomes smitten with.
I found this movie boring with a very creepy main character "Doris" played by Sally Field.
Then, "Hello, My Name is Doris" (R, 1:35) features her in another leading role in which she gets to exercise her comedic and dramatic muscles, to very entertaining effect.Field is Doris Miller, a shy and sweet but stubborn never-married woman in her 60s, who still lives in the childhood home she shared with her mother, who recently passed away.
A compassionate script by Laura Terruso (based on her 2011 short film "Doris & the Intern") and Michael Showalter, along with Showalter's sensitive direction and Field's terrific performance make this film a joyful journey for Movie Fans of all ages.
Sally Field, outfitted like a retro bag lady, plays an elderly data entry operator from Staten Island who lives like a hoarder in her deceased mother's house and has few friends; everything changes, however, once she becomes close with the handsome young man she works with--and secretly loves.
The catch is that the love bird is a 70 year old woman and the object of her infatuation is a twenty something guy that works in her office.Sally Field plays the role great and you can understand that when you watch the movie and you feel weird, when you are both rooting for her and feel a little grossed out.
You totally buy her acting in the role.I am not a fan of romcoms and, frankly, I won't recommend this movie, but it had some good moments and it is one romantic comedy that feels real, not those prefabricated guy meets girl, hits a snag and then they get together.
This story feels a bit slow at times but if you're a fan of Sally Field there's no reason why you wouldn't enjoy this movie..
So spanning a fifty years from 70's to this day (2019) the most romantic love affair between a young boy and mature lady remains (imho) to be this very film "Hello, my name is Doris" according to my limited exposure to all existing works.The strongest part of the film, other than Sally Field, is its screenplay.
Written by Laura Terruso and Michael Showalter (imdb), this scenerio bewilderingly develops the platonically romantic (and therefore potentially funny) relationship between a sixty something, cute and shy office lady Doris (Sally Field) Miller and the new and young guy in the block, John (Max Greenfield).
With the help of Sally Field's high grade acting and the perfect flawless support given by the remaining cast the film flows smoothly from the first scene to the last, and drags the audience with it, wondering the result of her platonic romance.
The film also flirts with the idea of trans-generational romances by having Doris's friendship with a young new hunk in her office open her eyes to a young, free-wheeling world in which she fits right in, but it doesn't really know what to do with her story once she gets there.
In the end, all of these young people who so accepted Doris turn out to be douches, and Doris learns some sort of lesson, but the screenplay is too muddled to make clear what that lesson is.Still, Sally Field is a wonderful actress, and just getting to watch her for an hour and a half made this film worth sitting through.
'HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS': Four and a Half Stars (Out of Five)A new rom-com drama flick starring Sally Field; as a woman in her late 60's, pursuing a co-worker that's half her age.
Doris seems like a very real, and relatable, person (especially to me); and Sally Field is amazing in the role.
It's a great character study, but it's also interesting to note that if the roles were reversed (and it was a man, in his 60s, stalking and, at times even, sexually harassing, a much younger attractive woman) audiences definitely wouldn't view it the same way.Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: https://youtu.be/n2qWxeZ0Tck. Never too late to fall in love!.
I loved the story which was obviously very simple in the line of 'Harold and Maude', but matured characters and well explored theme.Surely the character Doris was specially created Sally Field.
Much as I like Sally Field (and I like her, I really like her), I was prepared to dislike this movie because friends told me it was bad and they did not like the way the character of Doris was written.
When the movie began, I immediately saw their point, and I was impatient with the film because it seemed like a vehicle for Sally Field to say "Look, watch me act!" Doris comes across as disturbed and pathetic, so why, I wondered, are they trying to get laughs out of her delusions, dishonesty, and mental illness; that did not compute for me.
Sally Field is very likable as a shy, somewhat eccentric woman who develops on a crush on a co-worker half her age, and winds up being accepted by a bunch of hipsters.I appreciate the portrayal of infatuation and of the way it can warp your judgment, but I thought the film couldn't quite decide on whether its comedy was naturalistic or satiric.
Weak comedy about an older woman (Sally Field) crushing on a much younger man (Max Greenfield).
Field herself is okay, and is particularly great in one big dramatic scene where her brother (Root) tries to get her to clean up her house (she's a hoarder), but the film isn't really interested in creating any characters worth getting investing in emotionally..
The young man, John Fremont, is played amiably by Max Greenfield, and Tyne Daly is Doris's long-time loyal friend Roz. Peter Gallagher is convincingly smarmy as a self-help guru.
She makes being an old woman seem extremely creepy.If this movie had not been so badly written and directed, her performance might have pulled it out of the gutter, but she just played along with the astonishing dumbness and let the movie slog through the scum it was spawned in.I'm going to try really hard to forget I ever saw this movie; if I can, maybe my appreciation of Sally Field will return.
Is there a gender issue here?After her mother's funeral, spinster Doris (Sally Field) is unencumbered for the first time in her life, except for an ageing cat.
Doris, however, has been saved by her great good friend...thank God for that.But along the way, as we see Doris live, love, long, imagine, and absolutely flip out by accepting help from her friend's granddaughter (Facebook can be evil in the wrong hands!); mostly I loved seeing Sally Field as an honest, no-surgery- actress, unafraid to portray a woman who is aged, no longer in her prime, and still willing to face whatever is ahead and live a life anew.
This film tells the story of a older woman, who falls for a handsome and charming young man in the office.
It's funny, but funny in a weird way at times - Sally Field is classy - and If you are a fan of hers, then you will love her in this movie - It isn't your typical comedy - Falling in love with a younger co worker guy - and the lengths she goes to so she can get his attention.
Now this movie focuses mostly on Doris (Field) - it shows what a woman who never really lived will do when she comes out and goes after her man despite the age difference and other obstacles - Go watch it now - It's really cute and funny..
"Hello, My Name is Doris" is one of those sweet little feel good films of joy and finding out who you really are in life and it was an okay watch.
Veteran Sally Field is Doris a lonely middle aged lady who's a hoarder and she lives a different life, only one day a new handsome co worker played by Max Greenfield catches her eye.
Doris Miller (Sally Field) is a woman in her late sixties who has taken care of her mother for almost her entire adult life.
Filmmaker Michael Showalter's second feature is a star-vehicle for acting legendary Sally Field, who plays the titular Doris Miller, an old maiden in her sixties, living in Staten Island (aka.
This is the life- affirming message the film intends to inform us, one can never be too late to start anew, just seize the day, and sometimes, it is not such a big deal to try something out of one's comfort zone, as long as it is hazard-free.A plum leading role for Sally Field, mines her impeccable dexterity in both drama and comedy departments, she can throw incredibly funny reactions when she is lost in anachronism and digital- era jargon, while in the confrontational set pieces, she is electrifyingly emotive to the hilt, yet, her wide-eyed maladroitness inspires great screen chemistry with Max Greenfield's honest-to- goodness Prince Charming.
Sally Field does the best job in the world with a terrible character that should not be the lead focus of a movie.
Putting aside the role is a harmless old lady played by innocent-looking Sally Field, if the script was flipped the movie would be even more unappealing.
Sally Field steals the show obviously, but Max Greenfield is positively charming in the supporting role and seems very comfortable on screen with Field and all of their scenes are believable and work in the sense that you can feel Doris's aching need for love and above all, just attention.
Although the movie did have some of these elements, it beautifully dramatized the life of Doris Miller (Sally Field) in a way one can relate to.
Doris (Sally Field) is giving the character such life!
The actress that came through big time with block busters like Smokie and the Bandit has delivered in such a great way within the character of Doris.Good to see Tyne Daly (Roz in character) interacting besides of both the story and with Sally Field.
Max Greenfield (John Fremont) turns out to fit in the role of a young man just living his own way and life, missing it all out speaking of the signs of the interest from Doris.
Tyne Daly giving her line of the movie: "You're just....just like the weird f***ing art project!"The whole concept and the way that the story is forcing ahead is delightful with a little feel good atmosphere blended with a sad touch of an old lady really wanting to grabbing hold of that acting of being young again.
Can that be the reason why I feel that this motion picture could be both longer and more emotional with depth to hit that solid rate of 8 or more?Giving the movie the title "Hello, my name is Doris" is just bulls eye what the character and the film is all about.
I saw "Hello, My Name is Doris", starring Sally Field-The Amazing Spider-Man movies, Forest Gump; Max Greenfield-New Girl_tv, Veronica Mars,both the movie & the TV series; Tyne Daly-Judging Amy_tv, The Enforcer and Stephen Root-Selma, Justified_tv.This is a romantic comedy about an older woman with a younger man.
making this not a good enough film, to watch not with the family, not if you are over a certain age, it would make you feel old beyond repair, not for young people that would probably cringe at the kissing scenes.
I think actress Ms. Sally Field gives a wonderful performance as her character Doris.
The point I would like to make about this movie -"Hello, My Name Is Doris" is how the different "time periods" presents a different acceptance from the American audience about the older woman-younger man relationship.
Now we come to the year 2016 and in the movie - "Hello, My Name Is Doris" the American audience does visibly see the kissing scene between actress Sally Field and actor Max Greenfield; It appears American audiences are accepting of the older woman-younger man relationship.
In this case actress Ms. Sally Fields is almost 34 years older than actor Max Greenfield; I think how "Time" changes attitudes in the American culture about relationships between the older woman and younger man is interesting to me.
Loved Sally Field - Hated Doris.
Doris Miller (Sally Field) is a 60-something woman who spent a good portion of her adult life caring for her recently deceased mother.
This movie may be worth a watch for people who: have lost a loved one and feel lost themselves; women in their 60s; women who have had a crush on a younger man; hoarders; older people working in an office with many young co workers; women who like vintage clothes.Sally Field plays an eccentric named Doris.
I enjoyed watching Sally Field and Tyne Daly in this movie.