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Toots (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 9 Fresh: 9  Rotten:0 Average Rating: 7.7/10

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Runtime: 85 mins

Synopsis: A friend to the famous, a crook to the feds, father, brother, gambler, bum: Toots Shor was many things. But above all, he was the owner of America’s greatest saloon. Sinatra and DiMaggio, Ruth and Costello, Eisenhower, Nixon and Warren: for 30 years, they all found their way to Toots’ eponymous... A friend to the famous, a crook to the feds, father, brother, gambler, bum: Toots Shor was many things. But above all, he was the owner of America’s greatest saloon. Sinatra and DiMaggio, Ruth and Costello, Eisenhower, Nixon and Warren: for 30 years, they all found their way to Toots’ eponymous saloon on New York’s West 51st Street. Directed by his granddaughter, “Toots” is a provocative, loving and unmistakably authentic portrait of the self-made, unapologetic and quintessentially American man who became the unlikely den-mother to the heroes of America’s golden age... --© Menemsha Films [More]

Genre: Education/General Interest

Starring: Gay Talese, Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Frank Gifford, Pete Hamill

Director: Kristi Jacobson
Producer: Kristi Jacobson, Whitney Dow, Alicia Sams
Composer: Mark Suozzo

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Affectionately and vividly recalls a bygone New York era.

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10/09/07
Frank Scheck
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Cheers to Ms. Jacobson for keeping alive the memory of New York nightlife’s golden era, and a man who embodied it.

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09/22/07
Laura Kern
New York Times
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Toots leaves you longing for a more public culture, for places where the palship isn’t just the upshot of intoxication. It’s a cinematic happy hour.

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09/17/07
David Edelstein
New York Magazine
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A nostalgic, meticulously researched full course meal from granddaughter Kristi Jacobson that will whet appetites of fest, specialty and tube diners.

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09/15/07
Eddie Cockrell
Variety
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[Director Jacobson] skillfully turns one man's story into a spirited portrait of a good-time town.

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09/14/07
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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A well-deserved toast to a quintessential New Yorker of the post-World War II era.

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09/14/07
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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A real treat and a booster shot of sweet nostalgia.

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09/14/07
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International
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Charts with unabashed affection its subject's rise from Jewish discrimination as a kid in South Philly to magnetic celebrity and close friend to Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra, Joe Dimagio, and Frank Gifford.

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09/13/07
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine
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The film is most enamored, naturally, with the era of its subject's greatest influence, the '50s...

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09/11/07
Nick Pinkerton
Village Voice
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