This is a romantic comedy in the sense that someone is madly in love with another and they play all these fantasies in their head and it changes their lives. The catch is that the love bird is a 70 year old woman and the object of her infatuation is a twenty something guy that works in her office.Sally Field plays the role great and you can understand that when you watch the movie and you feel weird, when you are both rooting for her and feel a little grossed out. You totally buy her acting in the role.I am not a fan of romcoms and, frankly, I won't recommend this movie, but it had some good moments and it is one romantic comedy that feels real, not those prefabricated guy meets girl, hits a snag and then they get together. If I absolutely had to watch a romcom, this would be in the top of my list.

I found this movie boring with a very creepy main character "Doris" played by Sally Field. Also disturbing, in that she helped ruin a relationship because she was stalking her "love interest". In fact, the whole stalking plot line is really offensive and I am not sure why people think it's OK?. Can not recommend this movie.

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....