Tootsie

Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film that tells the story of a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to adopt a new identity as a woman to land a job. The movie stars Dustin Hoffman, with a supporting cast that includes Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Geena Davis in her acting debut, Doris Belack and producerdirector Sydney Pollack. Tootsie was adapted by Larry Gelbart, Barry Levinson uncredited, Elaine May uncredited and Murray Schisgal from the story by Gelbart and Don McGuire.

Michael Dorsey Dustin Hoffman is a respected but perfectionist actor. Nobody in New York wants to hire him anymore because he is difficult to work with. According to his longsuffering agent George Fields Sydney Pollack, Michaels attention to detail and difficult reputation led a commercial he worked on to run significantly overschedule, because the idea of a tomato sitting down was illogical to him. After many months without a job, Michael hears of an opening on the popular daytime soap opera Southwest General from his friend and acting student Sandy Lester Teri Garr, who tries out for the role of a hospital administrator Emily Kimberly but does not get it. In desperation, and as a result of his agent telling him that no one will hire you, he dresses as a woman, auditions as Dorothy Michaels and wins the part. Michael takes the job as a way to raise 8,000 to produce a play, written by his roommate Jeff Slater Bill Murray and to star Sandy, titled Return to Love Canal. Michael plays his character as a feisty, feminist administrator, which surprises the other actors and crew who expected Emily to be as written another swooning female in the plot. His character quickly becomes a television sensation.When Sandy catches Michael in her bedroom half undressed he wanted to try on her clothes in order to get more ideas for Dorothys outfits, he covers up by professing he wants to have sex with her. They have sex despite his better judgment about her selfesteem issues. Michael believes Sandy is too emotionally fragile to handle the truth about him winning the part, especially after noticing her strong resentment of Dorothy. Their relationship, combined with his deception, complicates his nowbusy schedule. Exacerbating matters further, he is strongly attracted to one of his costars, lovely, softspoken Julie Nichols Jessica Lange, a single mother in an unhealthy relationship with the shows amoral, sexist director, Ron Carlisle Dabney Coleman. At a party, when Michael as himself

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