Metacritic Film

Tootsie

Starring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Charles Durning, Teri Garr, Bill Murphy, Dabney Coleman, Doris Belack, and Sydney Pollack

MPAA RATING: PG

Columbia Pictures
Classic  |  Comedy
119 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters December 17, 1982

Unable to get an acting job, Michael Dorsey (Hoffman) becomes Dorothy Michaels and gets a part in a New York soap opera.

WRITTEN BY
Larry Gelbart (also story)
Murray Schisgal
Don McGuire (story)

DIRECTED BY
Sydney Pollack

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

87 / 100

Critic Reviews

100 Boston Globe Michael Blowen
Tootsie, the story of a man who liberates himself by masquerading as a woman, is the funniest, most revealing comedy since "Annie Hall." [17 Dec 1982]
100 Chicago Sun-Times
This movie gets you coming and going.
100 Time
This year's miracle is called Tootsie. It is not just the best comedy of the year; it is popular art on the way to becoming cultural artifact.
100 Variety
Remarkably funny and entirely convincing, film pulls off the rare accomplishment of being an in-drag comedy which also emerges with three-dimensional characters.
80 Empire Staff (Not Credited)
As hilarious as it is touching and tasteful at the same time, Tootsie will offend no one and uplift anyone who watches it.
63 TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)
Rather than confront what it sets up, it takes the one joke and runs - till it runs out of steam.
60 Chicago Reader
There are several solid laughs and some excellent supporting performances. But this is a film to be wary of.

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