Hello, My Name is Doris

On Tuesday, April 26, 2016, I went to see the movie Hello, My Name is Doris featuring Sally Field and Max Greenfield.

The movie is about Doris Miller, who works as a data entry clerk in a company in New York.  Her mother recently passed away.  This hit her really hard, as she was the primary caregiver.  She lives on Statten Island and works in Manhattan.

One day after her mother passed away, she goes to work and meets a handsome young man, played by Max Greenfield, whom she later discovers is a new important person in her company.  She learns also that this person is named John Freemont.

Doris starts fantasizing about John Freemont and gets infatuated with him.  She signs up for a fake Facebook account and starts to Facebook stalk John and starts listening to the same music that he likes, etc.

How does this movie end?  You'll have to watch it to find out.  I thought it was a very well done movie.  Worth the money.

Temple Grandin

On Tuesday, April 19, 2016, I went to see the movie Temple Grandin, featuring Claire Danes, Julia Ormond and Catherine O'Hara.

The movie is about Temple Grandin, an autistic professor who is the top of her field in animal husbandry, and her life and the struggles that she went through.

Great acting.  I didn't know it was Claire Danes who played the main character.  Catherine O'Hara also did a great job as the aunt.

Eye in the Sky

On Tuesday, Apr. 12, 2016, I went to see the movie Eye in the Sky featuring Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman and Aaron Paul.  The movie is about a military operation, which started off as a capture operation, for some international terrorists in Kenya.  However, the situation changes and escalates when a little girl enters the picture and when explosives are discovered inside the house.

How does it all end?  You'll have to watch the movie to find out...

Zootopia

On Tuesday, April 5, 2016, I went to see the movie Zootopia.  This is the latest Disney feature about animals who end up being like humans and working and stuff like that.  The story is about Judy Hopps, a bunny who comes from a family of carrot and vegetable farmers.  However, she is different than her parents and her siblings.  She wants to become a police officer.  People try to get in her way and persuade her to do other things, but she sticks by her dream.

Eventually, she does become the first bunny cop and is assigned to Precinct 1, right in the heart of Zootopia.  However, the chief there does not take her seriously.  She gets assigned to parking metre attendant to write tickets.

On her first day, she comes across a fox with his baby who is trying to buy a giant elephant sized popsicle.  However, in general, the animals don't trust foxes.  So, the store owner, an elephant, does not want to sell the popsicle.  Officer Hopps interjects and gets the owner to sell the fox, whom we find out later is named Nick Wilde, to be able to sell the popsicle...  Nick also "forgets" his wallet, and Officer Hopps willingly pays for the popsicle.

However, she was tricked.  She bumps into Nick Wilde again and sees that he takes the giant popsicle, melts it down into jars, takes it to polar tundra to form small popsicles, which he then sells at $2/pop to business mice.  Being angry about being swindled, she confronts Nick, but is not successful.

Eventually, she stumbles into a case about the missing mammals and makes a bet with her police chief that if she does not find the missing mammals in 48 hours, then she will resign.

What happens?  You'll have to watch the movie to find out!

This is a fun movie with a great story line and lots of great jokes.  I had many hearty laughs.