"I'm just an untalented old has-been." "Were you ever famous?" "No." "Then how can you be a has-been?" Hilarious, charming, and engaging, Tootsie is the story of Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman), an unemployed actor who lands a role on a famous soap opera (clearly a spoof of "General Hospital" by making himself into actress (i.e. female) Dorothy Michaels (still played by Hoffman). It gets even better: she (he?) finds herself (himself?) the object of affection of one of the leading actors, while having feelings for another actress (Geena Davis), while at the same time dealing with his/her new-found fame.
Jessica Lange (who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role), Terri Garr, Bill Murray, and even the film's director, Sydney Pollack, feature in supporting roles (with Murray having what has got to be one of the funniest lines in any movie that I've ever seen during the film's sidesplitting climax).
Rating: 95/100
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