A few years after his start making role in The Graduate Dustin Hoffman decided to really throw the acting world for a loop by acting as a woman. So comes Tootsie a movie about a struggling actor who takes a role on a daytime soap as a woman to raise some money and in the process makes a fool of the people he cares for most. The movie is fun and cute, but the real story is Hoffman as Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels. Hoffman has rarely had trouble being convincing as a man in any role he picks up, but the marvel is how convincingly he becomes a woman. In many films requiring men to take on woman roles there is always the annoying question in the viewers head of how none of those closest to the character recognize him. In Tootsie this is not the case. In Tootsie Dustin Hoffman fully and convincingly transforms with his character, oftentimes I thought he could be the best drag queen in history if he wanted to be. It is his performance that elevates a rather quaint story into a delightful romp, not to mention wonderful supporting roles by Bill Murray, Sydney Pollack, and Jessica Lange.
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