Tootsie & Steel Magnolias

Sydney Pollack’s TOOTSIE
(PG, 1982, 116 min)

Dustin Hoffman stars as an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a dowdy, middle-aged woman named Dorothy Michaels to get a part on a hit soap opera. The scheme works, but while he keeps up the charade, Dorothy comes to see life through the eyes of the opposite sex. Jessica Lange, Charles Durning, and Bill Murray co-star in this classic that heralded a new era of Hollywood wig-flipping.

Followed by:

Herbert Ross’ STEEL MAGNOLIAS
(PG, 1989, 118 min)

Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley Maclaine, Daryl Hannah and Olympia Dukakis play a group of friends living in Louisiana. The southern belles spend most of their time gossiping in the town beauty parlor in a movie that will make you laugh almost as much as it will make you cry.