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Tootsie

What do you get when you cross a hopelessly straight starving actor with a dynamite red sequined dress? You get America's hottest new actress.

1982 · PG · 1h 56m

Directed by Sydney Pollack

7.2

TMDB audience score
2,003 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego—Dorothy Michaels—in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.

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Cast

  • Dustin Hoffman
    Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels

  • Jessica Lange
    Julie Nichols

  • Teri Garr
    Sandy Lester

  • Dabney Coleman
    Ron Carlisle

  • Charles Durning
    Les Nichols

  • Bill Murray
    Jeff Slater

  • Sydney Pollack
    George Fields

  • George Gaynes
    John Van Horn

  • Geena Davis
    April

  • Doris Belack
    Rita

  • Ellen Foley
    Jacqui

  • Peter Gatto
    Rick

  • Lynne Thigpen
    Jo

  • Ronald L. Schwary
    Phil Weintraub

  • Debra Mooney
    Mrs. Mallory

  • Amy Lawrence
    Amy

  • Kenny Sinclair
    Boy

  • Susan Merson
    Page