Just saw it at SXSW and absolutely loved it. So glad to see Michael Showalter directing something that truly should get notice. And the cast, especially Sally Field, is great. Some of the negative reviews will complain that the tone is all over the place but he makes all those tones really come together in a movie that's both mainstream funny and ridiculous Showalter funny, as well as dramatic. It just works so well.
shareSeems you like the director more than the movie. I'll take the one true sentence in your fluff as "tone is all over the place".
shareYour ability to pick out what I said a negative critic would say and make that what I'm supposedly saying is amazing. If you read the full sentence I said he makes all those tones work together so well. Loved everything about it as did the rest of the people in the packed screening. Looking forward to seeing it again when it finally gets released.
shareI saw it on Friday, and I really enjoyed it. I laughed out loud in some parts, and there was a scene that brought tears. I like that this wasn't a cookie-cutter predictable movie, and that Doris wasn't just a caricature. She was great, and I liked everyone else. It was also fun seeing Tyne Daly on screen.
shareThis is a great movie! Sally Field never ceases to amaze me. I have the feeling I may just be like her when I'm older; chasing after a young, pretty man that I have no chance of ever getting! Also, Sally looked great in this movie!
shareThe one thing that I hated was that John liked Doris as a person. He trusted her. She destroyed his relationship with Brooklyn and didn't do anything to rectify the damage she had done. That was deplorable and a major character flaw in Doris.
shareYeah, that was the one thing that I didn't like, too. I felt like she owed him for that and I felt that she owed the girlfriend an apology that she should have made in person. Especially since the girl was so sweet to her.
shareSaw it this afternoon.
A wonderful comedy. So few stories about older women ... over the age of 40, anyway. So this was refreshing. I laughed some, but I kept feeling impending dread . . . that something terrible was just about to happen. That her bubble would burst. Or that she'd fall off the edge for good. Sally Field kept me guessing. Brilliant acting. Tyne Daly, how lovely to see her again. Their friendship was a love story of its own.