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| Taglines: | 1: The story of a father’s love that changed a nation |
| Plot Summary: | Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that when his financial situation reverses, he will be able to get his children back; money is hard to come by. During that time, Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of living in orphanages while Desmond struggles to secure finances. Now he must battle the courts to get his children back. |
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| Taglines: | 1: Can you keep a secret? In the next 72 hours, this desperate, unemployed actor will secretly audition for the lead of a soap opera. And become America’s hottest new actress. 2: Desperate, he took a female role and became a star. If only he could tell the woman he loves. 3: He’s Tootsie… She’s Dustin Hoffman 4: This Christmas everyone will know that she’s Dustin Hoffman and he’s Tootsie. 5: This Is a Hell of a Way To Make a Living. 6: 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. |
| Plot Summary: | Michael Dorsey is desperate; he can’t find a job. That is, until he gets a female role in a soap opera and becomes very famous. Of course, nobody knows that this new television star is a man… But, after a while, he falls in love with the leading actress of the series, and here is the big problem: how can he express his feelings, since she thinks that Michael is a woman? |