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Overall Rank: 1830

Average Rating: 2.8/4

# of Ratings: 222

Theatrical Release Date: 12/17/1982

Language: English

Genre: Drama, Comedy

MPAA Rating: PG

Director: Sydney Pollack

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Bill Murray, Sydney Pollack, Geena Davis

Plot: A difficult male actor lands a gig on a soap opera acting as a women in which the studio execs are unsuspecting that he is male.

Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 06/04/2019

A laugh riot of an instant classic, "Tootsie" is comically quirky and thematically smart.

SteelCity99 - wrote on 04/22/2018

Retard, but brilliant at the same time. What separates this from most of today's satires is the exploration of the relevant aspects of its social context, in this case, matrimony, celebrities and that little gene in society that allows the idea of a man to be dressed up as a woman to be successful, whereas the other way around wouldn't. 75/100

Gabe - wrote on 02/09/2013

Quite frankly, this is hardly a comedy. Bill Murray and Sydney Pollack get the best lines. I don't know how this got a Best Picture nomination in 1982. I'm not saying it's a bad film, but there have been better. I think it's funny how the AFI called this the second funniest film of all-time, behind another cross-dressing film, Some Like It Hot. This is a pretty "blah" film.

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One of the Best 'Man-In-Drag' Comedies

Unknown - wrote on 11/29/2011

One out of maybe three times I can recall where the 'man-in-drag' story actually works. It's not wacky fun like 'Some Like It Hot', nor is it a one man comedic show like 'Mrs. Doubtfire'. 'Tootsie' manages to find a good balance between what worked in both of these films. The characters and situations are well written and performed. Everyone delivers solid jokes and none of them feel too cliche for this type of story. Sure, you have the inevitable scenes involving men falling for the main character, him going after a woman of his own, and the 'big reveal' moment. These scenes don't feel as forced or cliche and a few of them are funny. The only part that bothers me is the rushed resolution. A quick, lackluster conclusion following a memorable reveal. There's still plenty of good …

Arbogast1960
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"Is he coming back?"

Arbogast1960 - wrote on 08/08/2009

In Tootsie, Sydney Pollack and Dustin Hoffman achieve the highly improbable: a mainstream, studio comedy that is also a great movie (for another example, see the following year's Terms of Endearment). Hoffman was still at his peak (before his late-period foray into dazed overacting), and delivers an astonishingly nuanced performance. He somehow manages to be hilarious while still having to be reasonably convincing as a woman (unlike, say, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot, who are deliberately caricatured and unbelievable). Bill Murray (in an unbilled part) is in his best deadpan-witty mode. And while Jessica Lange does well as the girl for whom no one could be blamed for falling, Teri Garr deserved Lange's Oscar. Her performance (not unlike Hoffman's) succeeds in …