Saturday, February 14, 2009
DOUBLE CROSS
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Sydney Pollack's
Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Terri Garr, Charles Durning, Dabney Coleman and Sydney Pollack, himself, as Tootsie's agent.
This is a romp of a film and one's suspension of belief is never really tested. Amazing.
The cast is perfect together.
Hoffman shows that he is a pretty good actor at being a not very good actor.
Bill Murray just delivers his lines and lets the angst cook up from way inside. When he was better than he is now.
Durning has several great scenes but his awakening to Hoffman's identity is slow and silent and hilarious to watch. The dawning. Durnings dawning.
I love Sydney Pollack in front or behind the cameras. In this case, we have a two-fer.
The whole cast is wonderful.
I would easily see it again just to watch the work but the film would capture me I am certain. That makes it a 4 out of Netflix5.
Labels: best films
