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Tootsie
Director: Sydney Pollack (Dir)
Release Date:   Dec 1982
Premiere Information:   New York and Los Angeles openings: 17 Dec 1982
Duration (in mins):   116
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Cast:   Dustin Hoffman (Michael Dorsey)  
    Dustin Hoffman (Dorothy Michaels)  
    Jessica Lange (Julie)  
    Teri Garr (Sandy)  
    Dabney Coleman (Ron)  
    Charles Durning (Les)  
    Bill Murray (Jeff)  
    Sydney Pollack (George Fields)  
Summary:  
Production Company: Mirage Enterprises  
  Punch Films  
  Delphi Productions  
Production Text: A Sydney Pollack Film
Distribution Company: Columbia Pictures  
Director: Sydney Pollack (Dir)
Producer: Sydney Pollack (Prod)
  Dick Richards (Prod)
Writer: Larry Gelbart (Scr)
  Murray Schisgal (Scr)
  Don McGuire (Story)
  Larry Gelbart (Story)
Photography: Owen Roizman (Dir of photog)
Art Direction: Peter Larkin (Prod des)
Film Editor: Fredric Steinkamp (Ed)
  William Steinkamp (Ed)
Music: Dave Grusin (Mus)
MPAA Rating: PG
Country: United States
Language: English
Copyright Claimant Copyright Date Copyright Number
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. 7/1/1983 dd/mm/yyyy PA159634
PCA NO: 26870
Physical Properties: Sd:
  col: Technicolor
  Lenses/Prints: Lenses and Panaflex Camera by Panavision
 
Genre: Comedy
Note: Tootsie was ranked 69th on AFI's 2007 100 Years…100 Movies--10th Anniversary Edition list of the greatest American films, down from the 62nd position it held on AFI's 1997 list. 
Bibliographic Sources:   Date   Page
Daily Variety   8 Dec 1982   p. 3.
Hollywood Reporter   8 Dec 1982   p. 3.
Los Angeles Times   17 Dec 1982   Calendar, p. 1.
Ms.   Mar 1983   pp. 39-43.
New Republic   24 Jan 1983   pp. 24-25.
New York Times   17 Dec 1982   Section III, p. 12.
New York Times   19 Dec 1982   Section III, p. 1.
New York Times   13 Jan 1983   Section III, p. 7.
New York Times   16 Jan 1983   Section III, p. 1.
New Yorker   27 Dec 1982   p. 68.
Newsweek   13 Dec 1982   p. 81.
Rolling Stone   3 Feb 1983   p. 33.
Sight and Sound   Summer, 1983   pp. 212-13.
Time   20 Dec 1982   pp. 76-77.
Variety   8 Dec 1982   p. 16.
Village Voice   21 Dec 1982   pp. 71-72.
Village Voice   28 Dec 1982   pp. 43-45.
American Cinematographer   Apr 1983   pp. 59-63.
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