Tootsie

Resource Information

The work Tootsie represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Tootsie

Statement of responsibility

Columbia Pictures presents ; screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal ; directed by Sydney Pollack

Contributor

• Lange, Jessica
• Garr, Teri, 1944-
• Pollack, Sydney, 1934-2008
• Murray, Bill, 1950 September 21-
• Hoffman, Dustin, 1937-
• Durning, Charles, 1923-2012
• Coleman, Dabney, 1932-

Actor

• Durning, Charles, 1923-2012
• Hoffman, Dustin, 1937-
• Garr, Teri, 1944-
• Pollack, Sydney, 1934-2008
• Coleman, Dabney, 1932-
• Murray, Bill, 1950 September 21-
• Lange, Jessica

Film director

• Pollack, Sydney, 1934-2008

Subject

• Comedy films
• Feature films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Feature films
• Comedy films

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

Follows the increasingly elaborate deception of a down-on-his-luck New York actor who disguises himself as a woman to get a coveted soap opera gig; while his female persona skyrockets to fame, he finds himself learning to be a better man

Member of

• Criterion collection, 738

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Dewey number

791.43/617

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R

Language note

Subtitled for the hearing impaired

LC call number

PN1995.9.C55

LC item number

T668754 2014

PerformerNote

Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Sydney Pollack, Bill Murray

Runtime

116

Series statement

The Criterion collection

Series volume

738

Technique

live action