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Continuing in our decade-by-decade comedy viewing, this week’s featured Schmooze film is 1982’s “Tootsie.”
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Starring Dustin Hoffman as the gender-bending Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels, the supporting roles are equally star-studded, with 1980s greats Jessica Lange (who won an Oscar for her role), Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, and Charles Durning.
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Sydney Pollack directs — and shares the spotlight in several scenes as the beleaguered agent. But the true scene-stealer is a young Bill Murray, who plays Hoffman’s playwright roommate.
Although set in a daytime drama (don’t say “soap opera!”) in the 1980s, the feminist questions raised are still all too relevant.
So put on your shoulder pads and let’s hear who gave this film an “oy,” “meh” or the prized “not bad” this week on The Reel Schmooze.
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