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.”
Sydney PollackCast
Dustin Hoffman 
Jessica Lange 
Teri Garr Dabney Coleman 
Charles Durning 
Bill Murray
Plot
Michael Dorsey is a talented but impossible New York actor who cannot get work. In desperation he dresses as a woman, auditions for a part in a TV soap opera and becomes a star as 'Dorothy Michaels'. He falls in love with his co-star Julie and has to deal with her father, who falls for Dorothy. Dustin Hoffman stars.
Sinekatalog’s take
One of the great American comedies, as funny as it is smart about gender and acting. Hoffman is excellent, and Pollack himself is very good as the agent, while the script is relentlessly well constructed.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.4 / 10 (124,149 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.