Tootsie

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/20/14 at 3:01pm

This was on cable last night and I got sucked in. What a fun movie. So much to love- I bet there are some folks here who love it too.

-The scene where Michael propositions Julie in the straightforward manner she SAID she wanted and she throws the drink in his face.

-Every single scene between Michael and his agent (played perfectly by director Sydney Pollack) including "A Tomato can't MOVE!"

-Charles Durning God he's great in this.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/20/14 at 3:07pm

I said GOOD DAY, sir!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 7/20/14 at 3:34pm

I love every moment of it.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 7/20/14 at 5:06pm

...and the song! "It Might Be You". It was 'our song' back then.

Love that movie.
One that I watch every single time I stumble upon it.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/20/14 at 5:14pm

Of course you got sucked in! It's one of those films like THE WIZARD OF OZ, ALL ABOUT EVE, and SOME LIKE IT HOT that typifies pure cinema happiness.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/20/14 at 6:49pm

Love it!

Not too long ago, an interview with Hoffman about the film was floating around (I don't remember if it came here). in which he talked about what he learned from playing Dorothy.

It was quite beautiful.

[gettinhep]

Posted: 7/20/14 at 7:41pm

'You are psychotic!!!', 'No, I'm employed.'

Always loved that film..

[madbrian]

Posted: 7/20/14 at 7:45pm

Great, great movie. You can also see a very young Christine Ebersole in a sceve.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/20/14 at 8:02pm

dramamama, I think this is the interview you're referring to.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 7/20/14 at 8:25pm

I love this film. Every time it comes on I watch it...I never tire of it!

Ron? I have a name it's Dorothy. It's not Tootsie or Toots or Sweetie or Honey or Doll.
Alan's always Alan, Tom's always Tom and John's always John. I have a name too. It's Dorothy, capital D-O-R-O-T-H-Y.

[Luscious]

Posted: 7/20/14 at 8:58pm

Love it! One of my all-time favorites. There's not a wasted moment or scene. The entire film is damn near perfect.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 7/20/14 at 9:04pm

I recently discovered the Elaine May did some uncredited work on this esp on Bill Murray's scenes. Frankly those r some of my fav's so it made total sense.

"i'm re-writing the necktie scene without the necktie"

After discovering Dorothy/Micheal in a unwanted clinch (total deadpan) "you slut."

[madbrian]

Posted: 7/20/14 at 10:03pm

I think my favorite scene is Hoffman trying to return the engagement ring to Durning.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/20/14 at 10:20pm

Yes, Jordan, that's it. Gave me a whole different respect for Hoffman (whom I've always thought was pretty wonderful.)

And Dabney Coleman - ah, sigh...

There are so many gems in that movie.

"But I was a better man with you, as a woman... than I ever was with a woman, as a man. You know what I mean? I just gotta learn to do it without the dress."

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 7/21/14 at 1:03am

Its one of the ones studied in the first year of Screenwriting at my university because the script is PERFECT. There isn't a wasted line or action.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 7/21/14 at 9:02am

TOOTSIE is one of the real champs -- Hoffman's best film, Pollack's best film, very definitely one of the great American movie comedies. It doesn't get better than this.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/21/14 at 1:18pm

You Tube has the original Siskel & Ebert review and they loved it. As they point out this film could have been awful in a million ways but it is totally flawless.