There are so many moments in Hello, My Name is Doris where I sat thinking, "Why don't I have the pleasure of watching Sally Field do this all the time? Why isn't Sally Field in a movie every year where she shows that she can be both affable and starkly real?" But, hey, this year, Field has Doris. Directed by comedian Michael Showalter (Wet Hot American Summer), Hello, My Name is Doris finds Field under an eccentric facade of big hair, cat's-eye glasses, and bright lipstick. Her shy Doris is a woman in her 60s who has never lived, in part because of circumstance and in part by her own design. She has been cloistered in her Staten Island home with her hoarder mother, who dies at the beginning...
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