Dustin Hoffman
Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels
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Dec 17, 1982 · Tootsie: Directed by Sydney Pollack. With Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman. Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.
- (116K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Sydney Pollack
- 1982-12-17
In the film, Michael Dorsey (Hoffman), a talented actor with a reputation for being professionally difficult, runs into romantic trouble after adopting a female persona to land a job. Tootsie was partly inspired from a play written by McGuire in the early 1970s, and was first made into screenplay by Dick Richards , Bob Kaufman , and Robert ...
Michael Dorsey : [arguing after revealing he loves another woman] I never said I love you. You're one of the dearest friends I've ever had, but let's not pretend that we're something we're not, or we're gonna lose everything we have! Sandy : I never said I love you, I don't care about I love you!
Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap. Michael Dorsey is an unemployed actor with an impossible reputation. In order to find work and fund his friend's play he dresses as a woman, Dorothy Michaels, and lands the part in a daytime drama.
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.
- Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels
"Tootsie" might have been content to limit itself to the complications of New York life in drag; it could have been "Victor/Victoria Visits Elaine's." But the movie's a little more ambitious than that. Michael Dorsey finds to his interest and amusement that Dorothy begins to take on a life of her own.
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Mar 3, 2008 · I am Michael Dorsey. I am Michael Dorsey." Like a good ad jingle, "Tootsie" dialogue works itself into you. The "Tootsie" screenplay is often cited in film schools, where it is revered, as a rare ...
