Event Details
Dustin Hoffman plays a principled but difficult actor who unexpectedly achieves stardom after assuming a female persona to land a role on a soap opera. Director Sydney Pollack and casting director Lynn Stalmaster supported Hoffman with a top-notch cast in this hugely popular farce, including Supporting Actress winner Jessica Lange as a soap actress, Supporting Actress nominee Teri Garr as Hoffman’s perplexed girlfriend, Charles Durning, Dabney Coleman, Geena Davis, and a scene-stealing performance by Pollack himself as Hoffman’s long-suffering agent.
The film was also nominated for Best Picture, Hoffman’s performance, and Pollack’s direction as well as its original screenplay, cinematography, film editing, sound, and the original song “It Might Be You.”
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1982 | 116 min. | USA | Color | Scope | English | Rated PG | 35mm
DIRECTED BY: Sydney Pollack
WRITTEN BY: Larry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal
STORY BY: Don McGuire, Larry Gelbart
WITH: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman
New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.