![]() It’s Christmas time, so the crowds are thick, and parking is scarce, but they manage to pick up their anniversary gifts to each other, all while coming to the revelation that both of them have been carrying on affairs behind each other’s back, which causes them to careen and screech to a halt, all while making a spectacle of themselves at the mall. Review: Los Angeles power couple Deborah (Bette Midler) and Nick (Woody Allen) are about to celebrate their 16th wedding anniversary, and they decide to spend the day at the mall. Scenes From a Mall Plot: On their 16th anniversary, a married couple’s trip to a Beverly Hills mall becomes the stage for personal revelations and deceptions. Both Midler and Tomlin (and co-stars Fred Ward and Edward Herrmann) provide much needed support as director Jim Abrahams fumbles the funny ball. We get both sides of the twins, as they get closer and closer to bumping into each other (which of course, they do), and then the film has its predictable resolution.īig Business should have been a whole lot more zany and savvy, but as it stands, it’s a harmless little comedy that is as amiable as it is “nonfat” on laughs. The poor twins travel to New York to protest to the corporation that plans on ruining their lives, and as soon as they get there, they’re mistaken for the wrong twins and are treated like royalty, which leads to a whole series of mistaken identity, confused bellhops and lovers, and so forth. 30 years later, the one privileged set of twins (Bette Midler plays the super bossy over achiever, and Lily Tomlin plays the neurotic, daydreamer who belongs in Jupiter Hollow) are about to buy the entire town of Jupiter Hollow (because fate is playing a fun trick on them, obviously), and the other set of twins (Midler plays the befuddled one, while Tomlin plays the smart one) oppose the purchase because it would ruin their town. Review: Aw, the screwball comedy: How we miss you! In the high concept comedy Big Business, two sets of twins are mixed up at the hospital: One mismatched set goes to a very wealthy family in New York, while the other set goes to a country bumpkin couple from a sleepy little town called Jupiter Hollow. 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. ![]() The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. If you’re going to pair these two movies up with other movies, they picked the right way to do it.īig Business Plot: 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. A farce of mistaken identity, a confused ex-husband, and equally confused suitors ensues.The performances in both titles are solid. Country Rose, the factory foreman, arrives with sister Sadie in New York to protest the sale at Moramax's Plaza Hotel board meeting. Rose, although a Moramax VP, feels an inexplicable longing for country living, gardens, and goats, and vainly tries to fight her sister. City Sadie, greedy and profit-oriented, wants to unload that furniture factory, putting 500 citizens out of work and laying the land bare to strip-mining. ![]() ![]() The city-raised twins inherited their father's corporate monolith, Moramax, which owns the factory town where all four were all born. The pairs, named Sadie ( Bette Midler) and Rose ( Lily Tomlin) and Sadie and Rose, find themselves on opposite sides of a corporate struggle. The plot takes up when the twins, mismatched by an overworked nurse, are all gearing up for battle. In BIG BUSINESS, two sets of identical twins are born in a rural hospital, one to local parents and the other to city slickers from New York. ![]()
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