Such a frustrating disappointment

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

What can I say other then the fact that this movie is about a frustrated old woman who, one day, decides to break up a young couple and then to claim that she never wanted to harm anyone. And for some reason, the gets sympathy and respect for it. All I can say is that this movie is absolutely pathetic and not worth watching.

The movie is often humorous, and sometimes sad. The reality is: Doris's life has passed her by, mostly through no fault of her own. She is trying to make up for lost time, or really, lost experiences by stepping out into the world as though she were 30ish. She does not realize that it won't work. It could work fine for her, it's just that it will not work for all of those she encounters.I have a friend who is a little like Doris only that he is male, and he doesn't quite have the courage, or maybe it is naivety of Doris. I'm not sure which. Doris eventually had a rude awakening. My friend has not, probably because he does not ventured out into the world socially as did Doris.As an older guy, I kept flashing back to past Sally Fields roles. It's like a time machine. There's the somewhat more mature Sally Fields seen in Forest Gump, the 30ish mother in both Places In The Heart and also Murphy's Romance, and go way back and there is the teenager in TV's Gidget. Given Sally's work in My Name Is Doris, she's still has some miles on her tires.

The overall 6.7 IMDb rating of this film is terribly misleading. While Sally Field is delightful in parts, the movie is hardly the comedy it is billed as. It is slow, the plot is flimsy, the jokes are uninspired.If this movie is attempting to do what Alexander Payne does with his films, it fails miserably. Eminently skippable, as is evinced by its early availability on Amazon Prime.

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 ****