Smartorhypo
Highly Overrated But Still Good
BroadcastChic
Excellent, a Must See
Winifred
The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.
Prismark10
Big Business is an updated version of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. It is directed by Jim Abrahams with astonishing split screen photography by Dean Cundey.Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin play dual roles. A set of twins switched at birth. Rose and Sadie Shelton were raised by a wealthy couple from New York. Rose and Sadie Ratliff were raised by farmers in Jupiter Hollow where all of them were one born but two of the babies were wrongly mixed up.The Shelton girls run their father's business Moramax in New York City and plan to shut down the main factory in Jupiter Hollow. Rose (Midler) is tough as nails while Sadie (Tomlin) is meeker and has more scruples.The Ratliff's visit New York in order to save the factory from closure. Sadie Ratliff (Tomlin) is the more astute and sensible one. Both sets of twins are staying at the same hotel and narrowly avoid meeting each other and not releasing that they are doppelgangers, but they cause mayhem with hotel staff, Moromax employees and even their boyfriends.Big Business is an easy going fun film, it captures the late 80s 'greed is good' mantra. We see one of the characters modelling herself on Alexis Carrington from Dynasty. It is just a shame that it is not laugh out loud funny.
moonspinner55
Reworking of the main gag in 1970's "Start the Revolution Without Me" has a rich couple from New York City, driving through a small southern town, checking into a bumpkin hospital where the wife delivers twins--two girls; at the same time, in the same befuddled hospital, a local woman also delivers twins--two girls. The joke, of course, is: one of the city babies is switched with one of the daughters from the farm family and, many years later, they all meet up at the Plaza Hotel. Bright, funny comedy, one of Bette Midler's better efforts for Touchstone, although it takes its time getting started. Once the action moves to the Plaza, it becomes less a vehicle for stars Midler and Lily Tomlin than a visual effects-driven farce with overtures to the 1930s. Tomlin's small town fussbudget is colorful, but her big city counterpart never takes shape, and she doesn't quite click with Midler (one may argue their characters are not related and therefore shouldn't click, but Tomlin's timing is very different from her co-star's, and she doesn't segue into brash slapstick comfortably). There's a great deal of incidental plotting revolving around the main action, with nutty characters continually popping up, but the jokes are freshest and funniest when director Jim Abrahams simply sets the camera on Bette Midler and lets her go. The editing is sloppy and abbreviates some of Midler's liveliest moments, yet Bette is very amusing when she's allowed to take charge. Fred Ward also appealing as a country rube who loves one or both of the Tomlins--although this pairing, too, lacks charisma (it's a plot device, like much of the rest of "Big Business"). *** from ****
Benedito Dias Rodrigues
Nobody in the eighties made a huge success than Bette Midler,she was a comedy's Queen in that period,like this movie who she plays twice,if one Bette Midler is good try to imagine on double acting...fantastic,this turn she plays a rich and arrogant business woman instead your twin sister who is poor and friendly,together with another twin sister played by Lily Tomlin not so funny this time,when all sister end up meeting the confusion is done,all kind weird situation was placed in this clever comedy,Bette as unmistakable style as walk and as talk...singular to say at minimum!!! Resume: First watch: 2007 / How many: 2 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5
patricianolan999
I love this movie. It's joyful and funny and always makes me laugh. The supporting male characters are perfect. They're the comic foil for the four ladies and their confusion over mistaken identities is priceless. One of the funniest scenes is near the end, when the four men are waiting in the hotel lobby for the sisters to finish their board meeting. Each sister walks out of the hotel with the guy who seems best suited for her! And the other characters---limousine driver, bellhops, desk clerks, office employees---are also funny. Even the homeless guy is hilarious as he keeps seeing "doubles" of Sadie and Rose walk in and out of the hotel. This is the best comedy that Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin ever did. It's a wonderful 1980's film....you don't see these kind of movies made nowadays.
