Director Michael Showalter instantly saw the potential in the initial footage and started work on a large scale version of the film.Ĭontinue: Hello, My Name Is Doris TrailerĪfter Alex (Jason Ritter) attempts suicide, his best pal Ben (Nate Parker) calls the old gang and asks them to come to Upstate New York and offer some support. Hello, My Name is Doris actually started out as an eight minute short called Doris and the Intern, written and directed by Laura Terruso. Doris must find a way to balance her new and old friends and also win her man. Doris might be a little bookish and bespectacled but she decides to explore new methods to attract her man.Īlong the way Doris befriends some of John's friends, who at first might seem entirely different to Doris but in actuality have a lot of similarities. Sure, John might be a few years her junior and into very different things to herself, but Doris has a niggling feeling she can't leave alone. She once had an offer of marriage but knowing that this would separate her from her mother, she declined.Īfter meeting the new director of art at her place of work, Doris automatically feels a connection with him. She has her best friend and work colleagues but love has always been something that's alluded her. Since the loss of her mother, Doris hasn't really had much companionship. So some of her emotional reactions to the people around her feel strangely abrupt.Ĭontinue reading: The Glass Castle Review By comparison, Larson can't help but seem a bit bland, especially in her puffy 80s suits and hairdos. Harrelson and Watts are terrific in their colourful roles as these brightly artistic people trying to make sure their kids are smart and free. But this strikingly intelligent man is undone by his hot temper and antagonistic approach to society, creating problems with his wife and children. This story is interspersed with extensive flashbacks of Jeannette's childhood (in which she's played by Chandler Head and the excellent Ella Anderson), exploring Rex's lifelong desire to build his dream 'glass castle' for the family to live in. But they are determined to be involved with her, and after another of Rex's impulsively violent outbursts, Jeannette thinks it might be time to get away from them for good. Indeed, Jeannette was raised in a free-form way, and her siblings (Sarah Snook, Josh Caras and Brigette Lundy-Paine) understand why she tries to hide them from her high-flying Manhattan life. It opens in 1989 New York, as Jeannette (Brie Larson) lies to her prospective in-laws about her parents, with her nice-guy fiance (Max Greenfield) helping her create a story that obscures the truth: Rex and Rose Mary Walls (Harrelson and Naomi Watts) are essentially homeless, living a life deliberately off the grid in defiance of meddling governments and too-powerful businesses.

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