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Movie Reviews of Big Business
Movie Review: HILARIOUS
Summary: 5 Stars
Definetly among my favourite films.I love Bette Midler.Her and Lily Tomlin were perfect together in this film.This is one of those movies that are just hilariously funny from beginning to end.With several cases of mistaken identity.The trick photography that brings both sets of characters together near the movie's end is outstanding.
Incidentally I recall an episode of Entertainment Tonight that compared this movie to the 1936 Laurel & Hardy feature titled Our Relations.Which had Laurel and Hardy in the same kind of mistaken identity situation.They had twin brothers named Alf Laurel and Burt Hardy.And like Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin,both sets of Laurel and Hardy characters eventually came face to face through the same source of trick photography.
However there are at least two notable differences between the two films.
1:Each set of L&H characters had different first names.Whereas Bette and Lily's characters both had the exact same names.
2:The first set of Bette and Lily characters had Bette as the agressive high strung bossy character,and Lily as the more sensitive and shy character.With the other set,these personality traits were reversed.Whereas L&H's characterization format remained the same with both pairs.
Movie Review: comedic case of mistaken identities
Summary: 5 Stars
I remember watching this as a young kid with my mother. I was surprised when this was released on DVD and bought myself a copy.
*Big Business* still cracked me up. Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin both play a set of twins. At a small hospital in a small town, Jupiter Hollow, a visiting rich couple give birth to twin girls. At the same time, a local poor couple give birth to twin girls. However, an overwhelmed nurse misplaces one girl with another girl in their cribs.
Fast-forward to their adulthood...the rich twin girls take over their father's company. Rich Sadie (Midler) wants to cut her losses and sell Jupiter Hollow. Rich Rose (Tomlin) is just not into this whole corporate world and just simply follows what Sadie wants. Meanwhile, Poor Rose wants to go to New York and give them a piece of her mind about this whole shebang. Poor Sadie just wants to taste the city life of NYC.
Pretty soon, they'll meet and have a moment they'll never forget.
*Big Business* is hilarious, especially with Rich Rose's obsession with pastries. Tomlin just cracks me up.
A classic, indeed!
Movie Review: a hilarious comedy - finally on DVD!
Summary: 5 Stars
"BIG BUSINESS" is one of the greatest comedies ever made. Boasting full-tilt performances by comic geniuses Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler, it is a fantastic film.The story concerns two sets of twins who were mixed up at birth; the city super-rich Sadie and Rose Shelton, and Jupiter Hollow country folk Sadie and Rose Ratliff. When the Shelton's company Moramax decides to stripmine Jupiter Hollow, the two Ratliff twins journey to New York in order to attend the annual stockholder's meeting and kick up a big fuss.
All the action takes place at the world-famous Plaza Hotel; the film is a delightful throwback to the screwball comedies of the 30's with the opening and shutting of doors, etc). The cast includes Edward Herrmann, Mary Gross and Fred Ward in fine supporting roles, though the spotlight is always on Lily (Rose Shelton and Rose Ratliff) and Bette (Sadie Shelton and Sadie Ratliff).
Two thumbs up!
The DVD includes a trailer for "Spy Hard". (Single-layer, single-sided disc).
Movie Review: On MY Top 10 List, funny!
Summary: 5 Stars
Funny as can be!
Bette Midler and Lilly Tomlin crack me up!! This movie probably never made big money at the box office, or won any awards, but I absolutely love it!
Not going to give away the plot, don't want to ruin it for you! You just have to see it! A case of mistaken identities gone amuck!
Midler and Tomlin, all four of them, are a hoot! Laughed myself silly! Bette milking a cow... Lilly on the elevator with the dog... eating sushi.. their friend from home.. then, meeting at the hotel, in the ladies room... Oh wow, it was funny!
My dear husband, Norman, even laughed at all the right parts. He seldom stays awake late at night, but he watched this with me, and my little eight year old granddaughter in bed with us, sweet thing, she fell asleep - shhhhh! adorable. Aren't grand kids a miracle?
You won't be sorry if you buy, rent, or steal this DVD, watch it!
Movie Review: Big Business
Summary: 5 Stars
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths following a big business deal to closedown the Jupiter Hollow factory. "Big Business" presents two central ideas. One idea is that two sets of twins can be born on the same night in the same hospital can be switched at birth and can meet one another later in life. Another idea would be that the "big guy" doesn't always win. This movie is hilarious. I watch this movie over and over and never seem to get tired of it. Highly recommended and it gets funnier every time.