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Toots (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 12

Fresh: 12

Rotten:0

Average Rating: 7.5/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 88 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Theatrical Release:Sep 14, 2007 Limited

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... 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]

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

Starring: Gay Talese, Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Frank Gifford, Pete Hamill, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford

Director: Kristi Jacobson

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

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  • "Toots Shor is many things to many people," said Edward R. Murrow of the legendary Manhattan saloonkeeper in 1955. A friend to the famous, a crook to the feds, father, brother, gambler, bum, but most of all Toots Shor was the owner of America's greatest saloon. 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. Politicians and gangsters, sports heroes and movie stars -- Sinatra, Gleason, Dimaggio, Ruth, Costello, Eisenhower, Nixon, Warren -- for 30 years, they all found their way to Toots' eponymous saloon on New York's West 51st Street for food and drink, served up with a heaping side of insults and put downs. From its post-WW II heyday to its devastating decline in the 1970s, this film reveals as much about the city Toots loved as it does about the man and his enduring legacy. Featuring: Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Frank Gifford, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Nick Pileggi, David Brown, Peter Duchin, Maury Allen, Dave Anderson, Bill Gallo, Joe Garagiola, Sidney Zion, Gay Talese, and Gianni Russo.
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    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.

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    12/18/08
    Matthew Nestel
    Boxoffice Magazine

    Restaurateur Toots Shor gets an overdue documentary close-up courtesy of his granddaughter, director Kristi Jacobson, in the enjoyable, well-assembled Toots.

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    11/21/08
    Gary Goldstein
    Los Angeles Times
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    You see Toots, and you wish you had been there.

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    10/16/08
    Roger Ebert
    Chicago Sun-Times
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    Affectionately and vividly recalls a bygone New York era.

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    10/09/07
    Frank Scheck
    Hollywood Reporter
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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

    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 Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
    09/13/07
    Nick Schager
    Slant Magazine

    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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