Film · Columbia · 1982
Pass it on
Tootsie
53Watch it awake.
He gets kinder at work and goes on lying to every person in the room.
The review
He cannot get hired, so he disguises himself as a woman and takes a soap-opera role. The strange, true observation is that he becomes a better coworker than he was as a man. He also keeps lying to every person in the room. The improvement and the fraud are the same performance.
He tells the truth on live television. Good, and late. I would not let the confession erase the weeks before it. Anyone in that studio who trusted the person in the costume was owed an earlier sentence. The question is not whether the makeup is funny. It is who had to live inside the lie.
Journal
Keep Tootsie in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Back to the Future
65 instead of 53
Back to the Future is still a comedy film, and it scores 65 instead of 53. What you gain is household: The plot is the parents' courtship.
The eight
- 7Industry
An unemployed actor takes a soap role, and the work itself starts to change him.
- 2Household
He grows close to coworkers. None of them is a spouse or a child in his care.
- 6Piety
Conscience arrives on live television, after the lie has already been the paycheck.
- 6Courage
Telling the truth on the air costs him the role he lied in order to get.
- 4Republic
A soap audience is a small public, and he owed them a person who was real.
- 4Temperance
The disguise is played as charm until one broadcast finally sends the bill.
- 8Truth
He lies to every person in the room, then pays for it in public, late and right.
- 5Stewardship
They are left a better coworker, and a man they now have to decide whether to trust.
Where to watch
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