Sally Field does the best job in the world with a terrible character that should not be the lead focus of a movie. A lot of people will probably say that Field's character was "charming" or "eccentric", but I'm 100% creeped out by this woman. Nearly every choice this woman makes in this movie is wrong. She manipulates situations to wiggle her way into a young man's life to try and seduce him. Putting aside the role is a harmless old lady played by innocent-looking Sally Field, if the script was flipped the movie would be even more unappealing. Imagine Burt Reynolds hitting on Anna Kendrick...precisely.
From the word "Go" she lies about who she is, what she likes, even orchestrating a pseudo-sexual situation where he needs to fill her ball with his pump. Yeah, that happens. Doris is so obsessed with this man that she stoops to making a fake profile on Facebook to try and get information on him. She stalks him to a concert, follows him around when he's on a date, then later she uses her fake profile to sabotage the relationship he's in.
And the ending, my God. What a vague message, what a pointless moral, what an unlikely unfolding of events considering the context of everything that happened prior. The writers and director actually suggest that despite her sabotage, her lying, the massive age difference and over-all questionable mental health of this woman, the young man actually wants her. Just an example of how this movie allows itself to suspend reality for the sake of lame humor and weak story. People don't talk the way that people in this movie talk, the whole story is so far-fetched, and the supporting cast might as well be magic 8-balls since their only function is to be as mildly amusing as possible while the main characters bounce dialogue off of them. If you're old, you might like it slightly, if you're not, then definitely not.
From the word "Go" she lies about who she is, what she likes, even orchestrating a pseudo-sexual situation where he needs to fill her ball with his pump. Yeah, that happens. Doris is so obsessed with this man that she stoops to making a fake profile on Facebook to try and get information on him. She stalks him to a concert, follows him around when he's on a date, then later she uses her fake profile to sabotage the relationship he's in.
And the ending, my God. What a vague message, what a pointless moral, what an unlikely unfolding of events considering the context of everything that happened prior. The writers and director actually suggest that despite her sabotage, her lying, the massive age difference and over-all questionable mental health of this woman, the young man actually wants her. Just an example of how this movie allows itself to suspend reality for the sake of lame humor and weak story. People don't talk the way that people in this movie talk, the whole story is so far-fetched, and the supporting cast might as well be magic 8-balls since their only function is to be as mildly amusing as possible while the main characters bounce dialogue off of them. If you're old, you might like it slightly, if you're not, then definitely not.