I'm just afraid that you're going to burn in Hell for all this.
No 168 - Tootsie Director - Sydney Pollack I had never seen this film - and my initial thought was that it was going to be something that I'd already seen before..... Well.... I was wrong and a half! So, the marvellous and utterly superb Dustin Hoffman plays Michael Dorsey - an actor who gets into drag so to help him get a part as a female character in a soap, because no one will hire him as himself. "Aha!" You all say "I know where this is going!" And.... Whilst Dorothy Michaels is closer to Josephine and Daphne than she is to Mrs Doubtfire , and whilst there are some parallels (the male character falls in lover with a female coworker who only knows him as his female counterpart) Tootsie tells a very different and very interesting story. For all the farce. For all the camp. For all the comedy genius (it has Bill Murray in it - it must be comedy genius) the film tackles a pretty serious issue. It is a film essentially about feminism. About equality in the wor...