Is Tootsie actually good?

Tootsie sits in the 91.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 91.1% of them.

How does Tootsie compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Tootsie lands in the 90.7% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Tootsie's score based on?

235 calibrated reviewers stand behind Tootsie's score.

1982

global pct

91.1

Film · 1982 · Films · 1980s

Tootsie

Name: Tootsie
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 1982

Scored from 235 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

91.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

90.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

99.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

235 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Michael Dorsey is a talented but difficult New York actor whose reputation makes him unhirable. Desperate for work, he disguises himself as a woman named Dorothy Michaels and lands a role on a popular daytime soap opera. As Dorothy becomes a feminist sensation, Michael falls for a co-star while juggling the increasingly tangled web of his double life.

Tootsie is a 1982 comedy, drama and romance film. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.

235 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 240 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,039 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside.