"Hello My Name Is Doris" (movie critique)

HELLO MY NAME IS DORIS
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The Travelling Toe and the Friday Movie Mavens just had to see the new movie with Sally Field,"Hello My Name Is Doris". 

Sally Field

The movie starts with Doris grieving for her mother who has just passed.  Her brother and his wife start trying to talk Doris into selling the family house, but it is filled and overflowing with stuff. The was mother a hoarder and Doris is as well.  When the brother tries to get Doris to clean up the house, she becomes extremely agitated and orders everyone out.  . She is not ready to face the daunting challenge of changing her life. But then, Dories meets her company's new hip art director, John Fremont.  She immediately starts having interesting fantasies about him. In her cluttered house, Dories mines the internet for any information she can find out about John.  Her close friend Roz, played by Tyne Daly, has a granddaughter who helps Doris to set-up a Facebook account under a false name to "friend" John.  Doris begins to show up at John's regular haunts and beings to win over his friends.  Her new life brings Doris a thrilling new frame of mind.  But also creates a rift between her and Roz, who believe that Doris is making a fool of herself.  But Doris pursues her "love" even though he has a real girlfriend.  In a very emotional scene Doris confesses to John that she invented the fake profile to get to know him and be closer to him.  This revaluation causes John to become very upset and he walks away from Doris. 

So Dear Readers, how does the story end?  Well, you will just have to go see the movie for yourself.  It is rather nice to have a story about an older woman pursuing a younger man as often we are subjected to the opposite.  Somehow older man and younger women are acceptable but not so much for older women and younger men.  So The Travelling Toe wants to tell Doris - you just go for it girl!!!!  grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!

CAST:

Beth Behrs
John's girlfriend

Max Greenfield
John

Tyne Daly
Roz

This movie is rated "R" for adult content and language.  The F-word is used but not a lot which is nice for a change.

The Travelling Toe gives this movie 1 big toe up with a Cougar roar!!!

Disclaimer:  The Travelling Toe is not a professional critic and any opinions expressed are for entertainment purposes only.