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TOOTSIE
March 2, 2019  | By David Bianculli  | 2 comments

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

Many times, when watching a Dustin Hoffman movie, you have to watch more than once to truly appreciate the contributions of his co-stars. In The Graduate, Hoffman is the center that demands the spotlight – but Anne Bancroft’s performance as Mrs. Robinson, ranging from underplayed comedy to fierce anger, is crucial to the movie’s success. In All the President’s Men, Hoffman has the showier part as Carl Bernstein, but Robert Redford much more than holds his own. In Rain Man, Hoffman’s role was properly and widely lauded, but Tom Cruise’s character arc as the initially selfish brother of Hoffman’s autistic Charlie Babbitt was just as important an ingredient to that film’s recipe. And in Tootsie, Hoffman gets to have so much fun as Dorothy, while making some serious points about gender roles and expectations, that we tend to overlook just how tender and honest a performance Jessica Lange was giving, at the start of her career, as the soap actress who is attracted to Dorothy as a friend. Watch Tootsie again, and this time, keep your eye focused on Lange. (And, when he’s on screen, to Bill Murray, who, at the start of his career, seems effortlessly assured and funny.

 
 
 
 
 
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Mark Isenberg
It helps that some guy named Dave Grusin and the Bergmans wrote a song,too. It has worked out ok for Stephen Bishop and ignore the Broadway musical.
Mar 2, 2019   |  Reply
 
 
Mark Isenberg
It helps that some guy named Dave Grusin and the Bergmans wrote a song,too. It has worked out ok for Stephen Bishop and ignore the Broadway musical.
Mar 2, 2019   |  Reply
 
 
 
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