Toots (2007)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:12
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.5/10
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
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... [More]
Starring: Gay Talese, Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Frank Gifford
Director: Kristi Jacobson
Reviews for Toots
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 3/5 |
Toots is a euphoric rewind to a bygone era when the speakeasies and the saloon congregations drew a faithful patronage that rivaled the Catholic Church. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Restaurateur Toots Shor gets an overdue documentary close-up courtesy of his granddaughter, director Kristi Jacobson, in the enjoyable, well-assembled Toots. Full Review |
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3/4 |
You see Toots, and you wish you had been there. Full Review |
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Affectionately and vividly recalls a bygone New York era. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
[Director Jacobson] skillfully turns one man's story into a spirited portrait of a good-time town. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
A well-deserved toast to a quintessential New Yorker of the post-World War II era. Full Review |
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A real treat and a booster shot of sweet nostalgia. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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The film is most enamored, naturally, with the era of its subject's greatest influence, the '50s... Full Review |
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