Tootsie
“What do you get when you cross a hopelessly straight starving actor with a dynamite red sequined dress? You get America's hottest new actress.”
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego—Dorothy Michaels—in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Studio
Mirage Enterprises
Language
en
Status
Released
How Tootsie performed
Budget
$21.0M
Worldwide Gross
$177.2M
Gross Profit
$156.2M
Return
8.4× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$26M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels
Dustin Hoffman
Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels
Julie Nichols
Jessica Lange
Julie Nichols
Sandy Lester
Teri Garr
Sandy Lester
Ron Carlisle
Dabney Coleman
Ron Carlisle
Les Nichols
Charles Durning
Les Nichols
Jeff Slater
Bill Murray
Jeff Slater
George Fields
Sydney Pollack
George Fields
John Van Horn
George Gaynes
John Van Horn
April
Geena Davis
April
Rita
Doris Belack
Rita
Jacqui
Ellen Foley
Jacqui
Rick
Peter Gatto
Rick
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