Tootsie (1982)

You know I’d never seen Tootsie until last night and it really does deserve its much praise. A highly respected comedy it also succeeds, perhaps surprisingly, at its intended objective of communicating the world of women to men. I’m not saying the film presents any great breakthroughs in that area, or even that I learned anything that I didn’t already know, but the empathy of the story, for all sides involved, save maybe Dabney Colmen’s (happy 76th by the way), comes through remarkably well. Plus now I know where the cheesy 80’s ballad “It Might Be You” comes from.