Comedy Classics

Tootsie

Credits

Country :

USA

Year :

1982

Director :

Sydney Pollack

Version :

vostFR

Duration :

116 minutes

Format :

digital

Actors :

Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Charles Durning, Sydney Pollack

Awards :

Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Lange), Oscars

synopsis

Struggling actor Michael Dorsey can no longer land a role. In a last-ditch attempt to revive his career, he reinvents himself as Dorothy Michaels, a strong-willed woman with a personality all her own.

Energique, fofolle, mais aussi subtile et blessée, éminemment touchante, la "Tootsie" de Dustin Hoffman a marqué les mémoires. Aux antipodes de la farce graveleuse, Sydney Pollack se livre à une réflexion délicate et drôle sur l'identité sexuelle et sur les préjugés qui l'entourent. Michael est amené à travestir son corps, mais aussi son âme, et se découvre finalement des trésors de féminité, voire de féminisme.

Télérama

"Tootsie" is the kind of Movie with a capital M that they used to make in the 1940s, when they weren’t afraid to mix up absurdity with seriousness, social comment with farce, and a little heartfelt tenderness right in there with the laughs. This movie gets you coming and going.

Roger Ebert