Tootsie (DVD)

...into perspective? Tootsie stands in my mind as one of the comedy greats of all time; it's a great movie with a charm of its own. Better still it keeps pretty good boundaries in respect of language and sexual content so it can be enjoyed by anyone. I was about 11 when I first saw Tootsie and I even then knew it was a fantastic movie. As I have grown older I have learned to appreciate it for different things. Without a doubt Tootsie is one of the ...
...out of the situation. In Tootsie you really can see why it's so hard to pull away from the life you have made for yourself, especially when your alter ego makes the front page of every glossy magazine in the country. And becomes the nations best loved iron lady. It also shows the shallowness of people, how quickly he is accepted by people when they think he is a woman, the sort of acceptance he could not get as a man. And when that acceptance again ...

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The cover of this film looks crap and the name sounds crap even the blurb sounded crap but in my quest to watch all movies with Bill Murray I gave it a go. The film is about Michael Doresey (Dustin Hoffman) an out of work actor who is just too good at what he does. He doesn't get on with directors because he finds them stupid and as a result can't get any work. His friend Sandy (Teri Garr) takes him along to an audition with her and Doresey sees ...
...preceding him. He dresses up as a woman and gets the part, immediately becoming a hit. Strangely his character plays a very strong female role. He ad-libs his lines and as a result he ends up making the show alot less sexist and the female cast start looking to him for advice. This leads to poblems as he starts to fall for Julie (Jessica Lange) who has started to look on him as almost a mother figure as well as her father who has his eyes set on ...

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...gem amid the chaos. Tootsie was released in 1982 and was a critical and commercial success. It's one of those one-line movies that Hollywood loves so much -- an unemployed actor can't find a job until he dresses up as a woman and becomes a huge success. This was Dustin Hoffman's first movie after winning an Oscar in Kramer Vs Kramer and he was having a hard time playing down his reputation as an actor overly concerned with his craft. There is a ...
..."Why doesn't he just act?" Tootsie proved that Dustin Hoffman was too canny to be knocked by Olivier's old-time snobbery. He stayed true to the "Method" but with this movie he allowed the audience a big laugh at his expense. Here is the exchange between Michael Dorsey the unemployable actor and his agent George Fields from early in the movie: George: I can’t even send you up for a commercial. You played a *tomato* for 30 seconds -- they went a half ...

danielse 29.12.2003 · Read full review
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