fairly amuse to begin with and this film quickly descend into realm of implausibility bordering on the absurd . the simple fact that dustin hoffman require hour of make up work before each scene should be enough to make that obvious . despite the film flaw and hoffman actually do pull it off and make a convincing female soap opera actor . the end bring the whole film down to the level of a soap opera and perhaps intentionally so . enjoy hoffman performance but do not expect anything profound while this movie do not aim at gender politics and merely cliche and predictable audience tittering .