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.
Toots (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 12
Rotten:0
Average Rating: 7.5/10
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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Nov 18, 2008
Reviews for Toots
Restaurateur Toots Shor gets an overdue documentary close-up courtesy of his granddaughter, director Kristi Jacobson, in the enjoyable, well-assembled Toots.
Cheers to Ms. Jacobson for keeping alive the memory of New York nightlife’s golden era, and a man who embodied it.
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.
A nostalgic, meticulously researched full course meal from granddaughter Kristi Jacobson that will whet appetites of fest, specialty and tube diners.
[Director Jacobson] skillfully turns one man's story into a spirited portrait of a good-time town.
A well-deserved toast to a quintessential New Yorker of the post-World War II era.
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.
The film is most enamored, naturally, with the era of its subject's greatest influence, the '50s...
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