CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

randy_mayor A stunningly bad movie. Not one scene rang true and many made my skin crawl (ball chair scene). There are so many clunkers to pick from but let's choose an early one that kinda sets the overall plot in motion. Fields' nebbish, 65 year old character begins a fantasy crush on a new, young coworker. When she's over at her friend's house who has a 13 year old granddaughter, discussion turns to the fact that Fields is smitten by this new man and said 13 year old granddaughter pulls him up on Facebook. Not one comment is made about his age and stunning good looks. With little discussion of the moral consequences they immediately create a fake Facebook page to begin stalking him. Weird, weird, weird. It's just one after the other. How do you get a green light for script like this?The other part of the movie that felt so off kilter was the wardrobe art direction for Field's character. We have a "hoarder" lady living in a run down house that is described by one character as disgusting and yet every day we see a new variation of fresh, kicky, retro outfits with a half up bouffant hairdo and scarf that goes way beyond any grandma's closet. And all the kids on the street think she is just adorable and hip. Give me a break.I see that some people described Sally Fields performance as Oscar worthy which is truly puzzling. To rank in that category the character or performance has to have some connection to reality and touch you with emotional intensity and truth. The only emotion I felt was impatience, as in how much longer before this movie is over.

jm10701 I don't know how to say how horrible this movie is. It's as if Sally Field (whom I've loved--and I do mean loved--ever since Sybil) forgot all the wonderful work she's done in the past 40+ years and returned to her moronic Gidget and Flying Nun sit-com roots. The problem is that she's hit 70 now, and behaving like an empty-headed, lovestruck tween is grossly out of place. 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. I wish I hadn't rented it, but I believed the gushing reviews, which must have been written by other septuagenarian Gidgets like Doris who are grateful finally to have a role model in Hollywood.

denkar7 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!

mltully If Sally had been a fellow and Max Greenfield female, they would've ended up in bed in the first 15 minutes. Reversed, Sally ends up not winning the boy, but also essentially jobless and homeless. It went from a sweet, funny escapade into something that had me seeing Sally's character sitting on a scrap of cardboard outside a subway station. The movie basically tells the world that women who have no spouse or children and are over the age of 50 need to drop off the planet as quickly and quietly as possible. Again, if the lead were a man, there would've been sex, then a dear farewell to the young protégé and off they go into the world. Forget about it.