Tootsie (1982)

3 corrected entries

★★★★☆

Starring: Bill Murray, Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman

Corrected entry: When Jessica Lange has Dustin Hoffman over to her place for dinner, she is wearing sweats and her hair is in a ponytail. But in one shot, where she is mixing food in a bowl with her hands, she has on a T-shirt and jeans, and her hair is in a French braid. In the following scenes, she is back in sweats and the ponytail.

Correction: Jessica Lange is in sweats but then the scene switches to Teri Garr (who is wearing jeans and a tee shirt) who is making dinner for Dustin Hoffman.

Corrected entry: During the opening credits, you see Dustin Hoffman applying spirit gum with a brush to his upper lip, to which he then places a fake moustache. Next, for some unknown reason, he brushes it on his right cheek.

Correction: He's applying a latex scar, which is visible in the next scene.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Dorothy reveals himself as Michael, his purple clutch handbag disappears while he's making his speech.

Correction: A wide shot reveals that Dorothy's purse has been set down on the banister next to her.

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Mistakes

Plot hole: Since "Dorothy Michaels" does not exist, she will not have a Social Security number. Even with her agent acting as a go-between, the television production company, her employers, would have to have this for their records. Supplying a false Social Security number is a very serious offense (and is instantly detectable), as is employing someone without one.

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Quotes

Ron Carlisle: Take, Tootsie.
Dorothy Michaels: Ron? I have a name it's Dorothy. It's not Tootsie or Toots or Sweetie or Honey or Doll.
Ron Carlisle: Oh, Christ.
Dorothy Michaels: No, just Dorothy. Alan's always Alan, Tom's always Tom and John's always John. I have a name too. It's Dorothy, capital D-O-R-O-T-H-Y.

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Trivia

Trivia: "Tootsie" was Dustin Hoffman's childhood nickname; it was he who suggested that as the movie's title.

Jeff Swanson

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Questions

Question: When this movie was first released in theaters, I vaguely remember a scene where one crewman yelled "go to commercial" and another crewperson said something like "we already had (some big number) commercials, stand-bys..." and other things in the sentence related to a big delay of the show. When this movie was recently on cable, I watched it and never found this scene in it, but remember this in 1982. Was this scene edited out in recent years, or am I mistaking this scene with another movie?

Answer: No I believe that's from the movie.