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Posted on September 16, 2016August 20, 2018 by Village Vidiot

  “Hello, My Name is Doris,”September 16, 2016 (2015), DVD.   I know I’m not supposed to be embarrassed when I watch films like this, but they make me incredibly uncomfortable They somehow hit so close to home that they make me totally stressed out Sally Fields stars and does a wonderful job in this comic drama about a mature woman facing life alone on the death of her mother/housemate She’s been the primary caregiver for her entire adult life and now must confront the emptiness of her life in a house crammed with the detritus of others She’s a hoarder and works in a terribly boring office job as a bookkeeper where all the Millenials and Gen-Ys view her as the weird duck she is Her friend (charmingly played by Tyne Daley) takes her to lectures and a self-help talk where she learns to think “I’m Possible” instead of “impossible” Life moves from there as she comes to act on her crush on John (Max Greenfield), a young art director at the firm I spent a good portion of the movie unable to watch her stalk and intrude in his life to ‘become’ able to outgrow her shyness, hoarding and isolation I know it’s supposed to be funny, but if a guy were doing it we would denounce the film as pathetic and utterly creepy Still, all the principals are fine, and Fields is excellent, especially when she finally breaks and acknowledges the selflessness as creating true self-lessness Interesting but creepy and difficult for me.

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