For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

I'm just gonna say: Imagine if it was from a man's perspective. Imagine all the people flipping out over a 60-year-old man trying to pursue a young girl. Not such a comedy genre anymore, aye? Yet somehow this is funny? This shouldn't have been a comedy genre at all. This should have been placed as a thriller but idk, somehow it's quirky and funny when an old woman pursues a hot young man? Why is it funny? Because all women are so harmless? Sure. Plus her stalkerish tendencies to get involved in everything he does is downright creepy. I'm just gonna let you imagine if the genders were switched and see for yourself how terrible of an idea this movie is.

There were so many times in this film I was genuinely sorry for Doris. While there were comical elements, mostly this was a tragic look at a doomed life too many martyr-types of women allow themselves to be locked into. My aunt was one, and she killed herself. 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. Dying young is a tragedy; living a long life as an older person is tough! Here's to "Hello, My Name is Doris" for taking a look at a real-life scenario and breathing life into characters who may truly be real folks. Sally Field, I always liked you...and I do even more, now!

Doris Miller (Sally Field) is a woman in her late sixties who has taken care of her mother for almost her entire adult life. But, her mother has just died and her brother and sister-in-law want her to sell their mother's house on Staten Island; Doris doesn't want to sell it. Her brother also tells her the he is worried about "the hording problem." Doris starts seeing a therapist about adjusting to her new situation. About this time, she also goes to a self-help seminar. (The name of the movie comes from her stick-on name tag from that seminar.) In spite of all the changes in Doris's life, she still has her job in a Manhattan office where she has done data entry in Accounting for years. So, her routine of ferrying to Manhattan to go to work hasn't changed, nor has her friendship with her long-time girlfriend, Roz (Tyne Daly). Roz, like Doris, seems to be "stuck" since she has not moved on since her "late" husband died—many years ago. One day, while ascending to her office in the elevator, Doris meets a new 30-something co-worker, John Fremont (Max Greenfield). When John is later introduced to the office staff, he is asked to make a few comments about himself. They are standard, brief, and to the point: he is from California and now looks forward to working in New York. Doris and John go out to lunch together. John seems to like her and is anxious to make new friends. In fact, when they go out to lunch together, they share many facts about their lives. John also asks Doris how she would feel about dating a younger man. When Doris tells Roz about this, Roz's granddaughter, Vivian (Isabella Acres), suggests trying to find him on Facebook to learn about his interests....

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. Writers Laura Terruso, expanding her short film "Doris & the Intern," and Michael Showalter, who also directed, build the second-half of their movie on the dramatic crux that Doris has inadvertently broken up her crush and his girlfriend after creating a phony Facebook account, and it's not enough. Nor is it convincing when Doris' brother and hateful sister-in-law try to rearrange her life (and, eventually, Doris comes around to see they're right!). There are fantasy interludes which intrude upon the narrative that are a cheat, and also a photo session for a music group that should be a fantasy but isn't. Field is terrific in an unbelievable role; the actress shows us many different sides of Doris and makes her endearing, even though the conception of this character is basically unreal. **1/2 from ****