Tootsie Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sydney Pollack
Genres: Comedy
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Michael Dorsey (Dustin_Hoffman), a brilliant but troublesome New York actor, has managed to alienate every producer on both coasts. Michael's agent George Fields (Sydney_Pollack) can't even get his client a commercial since Michael complained that the tomato he was playing wasn't properly motivated. "You were a tomato!" screams George in desperation, adding that Michael is so obnoxious that he will probably never work again. Dorsey thinks otherwise; when he hears of an opening on a popular soap opera, he applies for the job--even though the job is for a woman. Posing as "Miss Dorothy Michaels," Michael wins the part and becomes a widely-known actress. Yet complications ensue when Michael falls for his co-star Julie (Jessica_Lange, in an Oscar-winning performance) but, as Dorothy, is courted by Julie's widowed father (Charles_Durning). Michael ultimately finds that his disguise as a woman has made him a better man. One of the classic comedies of the 1980s, Tootsie's gender-bending premise boasts a screenplay by Larry_Gelbart and Murray_Schisgal, and by a host of memorable supporting comic performances from Dabney_Coleman, Teri_Garr, George_Gaynes, and Bill_Murray. Future Oscar-winner Geena_Davis makes her screen debut as a daytime drama queen, which indeed she had been before Tootsie came along. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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