Rom-Com Blog Summer Watchlist: “Hello, My Name Is Doris”

“Hello, My Name Is Doris” was dope. Even though that is probably not the way the movie wants to be reviewed because it is a rom-com that follows the life of an older woman named Doris, who has lived with her mother since she was born. She is probably around 60ish and after her mother dies at the beginning of the film, she still refuses to leave. She never found love and stuck to the things she knew best. She went to work everyday at a hip magazine company and they kept Doris on staff because they needed to keep some old “dinosaurs” in the workplace. She was always with her friend Raz, who lost her husband, but her life and mind-set changed when she met John (Max Greenfield). A young new employee at the company coming over from the Malibu office. Doris was in love from the moment she saw him.

Doris is far older than John and has basically nothing in common with John, but she works her tail off to find common interests between the two. She uses Raz’s granddaughter to help her with making a Facebook under an anonymous account to find out interests, and she ends up showing off that she likes a certain band that he likes. From then on out, they start hanging out a lot and become very close. In the end, she develops the courage to express how she feels to John, but he is not into it at all.

Doris was heartbroken, but it was a good reality check for her. She learned how to move on after this, move on from her mother’s death, move on from hoarding many items, and move on with her life in general. This movie is about the struggle of moving on and how life is short. Doris lives it up when she is trying to peruse John, and she stops living it up when he turns her down.

This movie is funny, tacky, corny, but has a great underlying message; sometimes it is hard to make the next step and move on, but everyone has to do so at some point. Doris was a little late to make the next step or move, but hey, she did do it. The movie ends when Doris quits her job at the company and says goodbye to John one last time.. The credits starts rolling right when John runs after the elevator that is shutting with Doris on it… These endings usually piss me off, but it made sense for this movie.

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