738 - Tootsie (1982)

Acclaimed American director Sydney Pollack examines the lives of struggling New York City actors working on a competitive and fraught soap opera.  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.  Becoming an unexpected feminist icon, Michael further challenges societal demands on the accepted gender identities in 1980s America.  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 (1961).