Tootsie (1982)
[7] Dustin Hoffman stars as Michael Dorsey, a struggling New York actor so desperate to land a job that he transforms himself into a woman to win a part on a daytime soap opera. As Dorothy Michaels, he challenges the…
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
[7] Writer/director Steven Spielberg follows up his immensely successful Jaws with this tale of extra-terrestrials and government conspiracy. Richard Dreyfuss stars as a family man whose encounter with a UFO brings him into contact with a grieving mother (Melinda Dillon)…
Firstborn (1984)
[6] Christopher Collet plays a tenth-grader whose divorced mother brings a drug-dealing boyfriend home in this drama from Michael Apted (Nell, Gorillas in the Mist). The movie is pretty solid for its first two-thirds, ratcheting up the tension and creating…