CRITERION COLLECTION: TOOTSIE

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• Release Year: 1982
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: In Tootsie, Michael Dorsey lands the role of a lifetime—as did the actor playing him, Dustin Hoffman. This multilayered comedy from Sydney Pollack follows the elaborate deception of a down-on-his-luck New York actor who poses as a woman to get a soap opera gig; while “Dorothy Michaels” skyrockets to fame, Michael finds himself learning to be a better man. Given support by a stellar cast that includes Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Teri Garr, George Gaynes, Bill Murray, and, in a breakthrough performance, Jessica Lange, Tootsie is a funny, cutting, and poignant film from an American moment defined by shifting social and sexual identities.
• Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Sydney Pollack, George Gaynes, Geena Davis, Doris Belack, Ellen Foley, Peter Gatto, Lynne Thigpen, Ronald L. Schwary, Debra Mooney, Amy Lawrence, Kenny Sinclair, Susan Merson, Michael Ryan, Robert D. Wilson, James Carruthers, Estelle Getty, Christine Ebersole, Bernie Pollack, Sam Stoneburner, Marjorie Lovett, Willy Switkes, Gregory Camillucci, Barbara Spiegel, Tony Craig, Walter Cline, Suzanne von Schaack, Anne Shropshire, Pamela Lincoln, Mary Donnet, Bernie Passeltiner, Mallory Millett, Patti Cohane, Murray Schisgal, Greg Gorman, Anne Prager, John Carpenter, Bob Levine, Richard Whiting, Jim Jansen, Susan Egbert, Kas Self, Tom Mardirosian, Richard Wirth, Gavin Reed, Annie Korzen, Ibbits Warriner, Lois De Banzie, Stephen Prutting, Carole Holland, Tobin Bell, Phillip Borsos, Cassandra Danz, Jim Dratfield, Paul E. Guskin, John Kapelos, Gene Shalit, Andy Warhol, Joyce Worsley, Larry Gelbart, Don McGuire, Barry Levinson, Robert Garland, Elaine May
• Director: Sydney Pollack
• Runtime: 1:56
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Sony Home Pictures Entertainment, Columbia Pictures
• Media Format: Movie