The film also screened at the Montclair Film Festival on May 1, 2015. It was later revealed that Stage 6 Films would co-partner on the domestic release, and release the film internationally. Shortly after it was announced Roadside Attractions had acquired distribution rights to the film.
The film had its world premiere on March 14, 2015, at South by Southwest. On July 11, 2014, YouTube star Anna Akana was cast as a web blogger whose attention is piqued by Field's character. On June 27, 2014, Natasha Lyonne, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Kyle Mooney, and Kumail Nanjiani were announced as part of the cast. On May 28, 2014, it was announced that Sally Field would play the title character, and on the same day Beth Behrs was also cast. On April 18, 2014, Max Greenfield was cast in the male lead role. After hesitating, John calls out her name and runs toward the elevator. She has another fantasy where John kisses her and proposes that they should be together in reality, she enters the elevator to leave, alone. She quits her job, and says good-bye to John before she leaves. Doris leaves, deeply hurt, and invites Roz over for comfort.ĭoris invites her therapist over again to declutter her house, and she succeeds in getting it cleaned up. When a flustered Doris asks him what he meant by asking her if she was interested in younger men, John clarifies that he trying to set her up with his uncle, who is a decade younger than Doris. While trying to come onto him, Doris reveals that she has always liked him and that she posted the comment that caused Brooklyn to break up with him.
During the party, she asks to talk to John in his bedroom. She dresses up and goes to the Thanksgiving party where she meets John's uncle, who is clearly interested in her. She agrees, and when he asks her if she would ever be interested in dating a younger man, she is elated at this indication he is interested in her. After work, John tells Doris about the incident and invites her to his Thanksgiving for friends. Brooklyn later tells Doris that she had seen the comment on his wall and accused him of cheating on her, and she admits that she was cheated on in the past. The next morning, Todd arrives with Doris' therapist, planning on decluttering her house, but when Cynthia tries to throw out a pencil Doris stole from John, Doris angrily throws them out of her house.Īt work, Brooklyn arrives and has a fight with John before breaking up with him. She spends the night drinking wine, and in a drunken fit of anguish, she posts a comment on John's social media wall while using her fake profile, posing as a scorned young woman with whom he had a torrid love affair. Though Brooklyn is friendly and welcoming to her, Doris is devastated. John is distracted for the next week, and Doris discovers that he has a girlfriend, Brooklyn. John gives her a friendly kiss goodnight, and Doris is in love. She reveals that she was engaged in the past, but had to end it in order to take care of her mother. John tells Doris that he and his girlfriend recently broke up over text, and asks her about her love life. The band is intrigued by Doris and invite her backstage, where they spend a fun evening meeting young artists in the area. Doris buys one of the band's CDs, which gets John's attention, and attends the concert, where she meets him and they spend time together. With Vivian's help, Doris creates a fake social media profile in order to find information about John, and discovers that he loves an electropop band that is planning an upcoming concert in the area. Empowered by self-improvement tapes, Doris decides to pursue a romantic relationship with him.ĭoris finds ways to get John's attention the attempts are frequently combined with daydream fantasies about a passionate love affair between them. On her way to work in Manhattan, where she has been doing data entry for decades, she meets new young co-worker John, with whom she is immediately infatuated. Her only close friend is the fiery Roz, though she also gets along with Roz's granddaughter Vivian. At the funeral, her brother Todd and his wife Cynthia try to persuade her to sell the house, especially the possessions, as she is a hoarder. Doris Miller is a shy, eccentric 60-something woman, living alone following the death of her mother, with whom she has lived for her whole life.
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