Story by Larry Gelbart and Don McGuire, screenplay by Gelbart and Murray Schisgal, (and various uncredited writers, including Elaine May) a descendant of Some Like It Hot in the problems of a man passing as a woman.
The idea that the film was banned in certain US States is absolute bollocks. (Although having just read about states introducing bans on drag acts, I'd say in today's crazy age anything is possible in the USA.)
Hoffman sounds like a bit of a difficult customer to work with. Jessica Lange is sweet, Bill Murray suitably laconic, Pollack good as agent. With Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Doris Belack, Geena Davis. It's well acted overall.
Photographed by Owen Roizman. Dave Grusin's music is not welcome - from it I would have guessed the date of the movie as 1982. It won 10 Oscar nominations, including for Fredric and son William Steinkamp as editors, but only Lange won.
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