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Tootsie

Sydney Pollack · 1982 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

An unemployable New York actor with a reputation for arguing auditions in a dress for a hospital soap and gets the part, inventing a sharp-tongued administrator who becomes a national favourite. He falls for his co-star, whose father falls for him, while his roommate and his agent watch the arrangement compound. Pollack and Hoffman played the premise straight and got the decade's smartest comedy about how men are heard.

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Attributes

Genre
ComedyRomanceSatire
Theme
Identity & SelfLoveAppearance vs RealityIndividual vs Society
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
TricksterShapeshifterLover
Plot structure
Mistaken IdentityComic ResolutionIronic Reversal
Symbol / motif
The MaskThe GarmentThe Stage
Conflict
vs Selfvs Society
Mode / tone
ComicSatirical
Culture / tradition
Modern / American

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