Top cast:James McAvoy,Bruce Willis,Samuel L. Jackson
Director:Jared Hess&Lynn Wang
Genre:Action
Region:Finland
Year:1999
Storyline:Plot SynopsisAfter the credits, the film""s prologue is viewed over a long shot view of the Place de la Concorde in Paris:This picture takes place in Paris in those wonderful days when a siren was a brunette and not an alarm --- and if a Frenchman turned out the light, it was not on account of an air raid!One by one, three strangely dressed Russians - all comic stereotypes - enter through a hotel lobby""s revolving door and into the luxurious, first-class Parisian Hotel Clarence.Evelyn: But I-I love you!Garver: You haven""t got the vaguest idea what love is.We don""t even know each other.Feeling abandoned, Evelyn internalized the pain and attempted suicide by slitting her wrists in Dave""s bathroom, and he was manipulatively forced (through Evelyn""s faked guilt trip) to care for her for a few days.Voorhees (Betsy Palmer).The camp""s ex-cook was seeking homicidal revenge for the tragic and accidental drowning death of her young son Jason Voorhees at Camp Crystal Lake in 1957.Looked at that way, it""s not only simple, it""s downright monotonous.But I was wrong.I figured without the wedding.Now you fathers will understand.You have a little girl.She looks up to you.You""re her oracle.You""re her hero.And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day on, you""re in a constant state of panic.[Note: See Filmsite""s:Sex in Cinema: 1980, andSex in Cinema: 1982.]Many asked about the origin of the film""s title, and here were two explanations both unrelated to the film itself -- (1) it was the name of the dog of Hoffman""s mother, and (2) as a little child, Hoffman""s mother playfully threw him into the air and exclaimed his nickname: "How""s my Tootsie-Wootsie?" The film""s original title was more in line with the film""s theme: "Would I Lie to You?"Before the project finally gained steam, it went through wo other directors (Dick Richards, Hal Ashby, and Sydney Pollack), many choices of actors/actresses (Cher, Michael Caine, and Peter Sellers) and about twenty script rewrites with numerous writers.