What do you get when you cross a hopelessly straight starving actor with a dynamite red sequined dress? You get America's hottest new actress.
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego—Dorothy Michaels—in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
$21,000,000
$177,200,000
December 17, 1982
Mirage Enterprises, Punch Productions
48 people
Dustin Hoffman
Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels
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Jessica Lange
Julie Nichols
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Teri Garr
Sandy Lester
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Dabney Coleman
Ron Carlisle
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Jeff Slater
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George Fields
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Geena Davis
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Doris Belack
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