738 - Tootsie (1982)
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Acclaimed American director Sydney Pollack examines the lives of struggling New York City actors working on a competitive and fraught soap opera.\\xa0 Dustin Hoffman plays Michael Dorsey, a talented, but difficult, and under appreciated actor who financial needs and uncompromising nature lead him to take a role as a woman, played by a woman.\\xa0 Becoming an unexpected feminist icon, Michael further challenges societal demands on the accepted gender identities in 1980s America.\\xa0 Hard-hitting stuff.
If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins' West Side Story\\xa0(1961).
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