Laserdisc

Tootsie (1992)

Reviewed by Steve Daly | Jan 24, 1992

Steve Daly

Steve Daly is a senior writer at EW, and also author of EW.com's Money Shot column

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EW's GRADE

A+

Details Rated: PG; Genres: Comedy, Documentary; With: Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange; Distributors: Columbia Pictures and Criterion

Bewigged, buck-toothed, and drippingly Southern, Dustin Hoffman brilliantly anchors Tootsie's farcical plot about an actor who lands a woman's role in a hospital soap. Yet until now, Tootsie's wide-screen imagery had been a drag to watch on video, with supporting actors constantly cropped out of ensemble shots. This letterboxed laserdisc fixes all that, restoring every wide-eyed double take Hoffman inspires in Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, and Charles Durning. With the film's color and detail also tweaked to perfection, an alternate audio track featuring droll, old-master commentary by director Sydney Pollack (The Way We Were), and a second disc devoted to live-action and still-frame documentaries about the production, Criterion dolls up an already great movie into a must-see salute. A+

Originally posted Jan 24, 1992 Published in issue #102 Jan 24, 1992 Order article reprints

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