Tootsie (1982)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 116m
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Teri Garr, Jessica Lange, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Sydney Pollack
Synopsis:
An out-of-work actor poses as a woman to secure a part on a TV soap. It does wonders for his liberated view of sexual politics but screws up his personal life some.
Review:
A clever updating of the Victor/Victoria idea, that itself began life as a Bessie Matthews vehicle. Hoffman had one of his outstanding successes as Michael Dorsey, the intolerant actor no one would work with as a man, and there are delicious cameos elsewhere, though rather too many pauses in the action for musically backed montage. The film remains a cultural time capsule of lasting value, however.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 116m
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Teri Garr, Jessica Lange, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Sydney Pollack
Synopsis:
An out-of-work actor poses as a woman to secure a part on a TV soap. It does wonders for his liberated view of sexual politics but screws up his personal life some.
Review:
A clever updating of the Victor/Victoria idea, that itself began life as a Bessie Matthews vehicle. Hoffman had one of his outstanding successes as Michael Dorsey, the intolerant actor no one would work with as a man, and there are delicious cameos elsewhere, though rather too many pauses in the action for musically backed montage. The film remains a cultural time capsule of lasting value, however.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 116m
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Teri Garr, Jessica Lange, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Sydney Pollack
Synopsis:
An out-of-work actor poses as a woman to secure a part on a TV soap. It does wonders for his liberated view of sexual politics but screws up his personal life some.
Review:
A clever updating of the Victor/Victoria idea, that itself began life as a Bessie Matthews vehicle. Hoffman had one of his outstanding successes as Michael Dorsey, the intolerant actor no one would work with as a man, and there are delicious cameos elsewhere, though rather too many pauses in the action for musically backed montage. The film remains a cultural time capsule of lasting value, however.