#62: Tootsie (1982)

Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Bill Murray, Sydney Pollack, Geena Davis
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Emily says:
There are sort of two types of movies on this list: films that are historic and films that are timeless. This is one of those films that is timeless. 27 years later, this film is dated by the music, clothes, and hairstyle, but watching Dustin Hoffman cross dress as a woman and try to get Jessica Lange to fall in love with him is timeless.

I imagine that in 1982, the question of what it means to be a strong woman was at the forefront of many minds, and Dustin Hoffman's Dorothy reminds us of how far women have come and how lucky girls are today to be able to grow up in a culture that defines womanhood countless times more broadly than it once did.

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