Tootsie

Tootsie is the adorable story of an out of work actor's, Dustin Hoffman, attempts to find work in New York City. When he can't make it as a male actor, he dresses up like a woman and gets a job on a General-Hospital-like soap.

Emily: I had seen this before and we wanted to watch something cute because Do the Right Thing was sad, Repo Man was weird, and the cocktail of disturbing that was the combination of Blue Velvet, Apocalypse Now, and Blade Runner all in a row was a little much for the two of us.

Kamala: Tootsie is an adorable light-as-air comedy about a man trying to make it as a female actor in NYC. It isn't one of those movies that you praise artistically afterwards, but it was fine, I mean it was cute. We hadn't watched enough of those typical big studio movies in the 80's and so we decided to watch this one. It was produced by the now-late Sydney Pollack. He cast Bill Murray as Hoffman's roommate. IMDB says that all of his lines were improvised but I don't think that is such a feat because he basically said the same thing with the same annoying deadpan face every time. Like "this is getting creepy Michael" or "do you want help with that brassiere?"

Emily: Oh snap

anyways Tootsie was also jolly redhead giant Geena Davis's film debut. Dustin Hoffman and Sydney Pollack worked closely together to make this film. The idea came to Hoffman to play both a man and a woman while working on Kramer vs. Kramer, which is a good movie just so everyone knows. We don't really have much to say about this one, it was one of those PG sightly racy family comedies and Dustin Hoffman is an unbelievable jerk to this woman he is working on a play with as "Michael." I mean Kamala and I had to pause the movie to make sure that he really had just I mean he was horrible. Tootsie is adorable, as we have said, and if you are looking for something light and happy to watch in between films about a robot apocalypse, apocalypse now, and a small town gangster/pervert, Tootsie is the film for you!

"No one ever laughed during the shooting of any scenes of the film. It's only funny because of its story structure." -Sydney Pollack