Plot hole: Michael Dorsey is a jobbing actor working as a kitchen hand, and his flatmate Geoff is an aspiring writer trying to raise the capital to have his latest play on stage - yet they can afford a huge, open plan apartment in New York City. The rent on that apartment would easily exceed their combined income from their low-paying jobs. There is no indication that they are independently wealthy - why would they need Dorsey's fees from the soap opera to stage Geoff's play if they were?
Tootsie (1982)
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Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Bill Murray, Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman
Factual error: No actor is going to secure a recurring speaking role in a soap opera unless a comprehensive insurance policy has been secured. (This applies to feature films, too.) This will inevitably involve a medical examination. Mr Dorsey's plans are going to become dreadfully unstuck the minute he drops his y-fronts in the doctor's surgery. (No, he can't find a compliant or bribeable doctor - the insurance company will always use their own people.)
John Van Horne: Does Jeff know?
Trivia: The filming for Toosie went almost 3 weeks beyond the schedule because Dustin Hoffman could only film his scenes as Dorothy for about three hours at a time, after which his beard began to show and it took too long to reapply his makeup.
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.
Suggested correction: The apartment is a converted loft, and if they've lived there for 15+ years, the rent would be quite cheap.
A 2-bed converted loft in New York City is going to cost them about US$2500 a month in 2025 money. Where is that money coming from? We see no indication that Geoff is working at all, and Dorsey is a kitchen hand, probably netting the equivalent of about US$2800 a month. They can't afford to eat.
1) Rents have risen much faster than inflation in New York, especially in that neighbourhood. Rents in that neighbourhood were in the low hundreds per month in that neighbourhood at that time - closer to $1000 a month in 2025 dollars. 2) We see plenty of indications that Geoff is working; we see him and Michael at work, together. 3) That's not a "converted loft" in the 2025 sense. It's plainly obviously a dump. They've put up DIY walls and there's mould everywhere.