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| Big Business | 
 enlarge | Director: Jim Abrahams
Actors: Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward, Edward Herrmann, Michele Placido
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 3837
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 98
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: DISD24445D
UPC: 786936124590
EAN: 0786936124590
ASIN: B000065V3L
Theatrical Release Date: June 10, 1988
Release Date: August 13, 2002
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Product Description
Mixed up at birth two sets of twins finally meet their match. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 01/13/2004 Starring: Bette Midler Fred Ward Run time: 98 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Jim Abrahams
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 Big Business September 5, 2008
This is one of the funniest movies EVER!!
If you like Lily Tomlin and/or Bette Midler, you will LOVE this movie!
 Nature or Nurture, Disney Won't Decide July 6, 2008
This film approaches the nature vs. nurture debate in comedic tones, but in politically correct Disney fashion, they never pick a side.
"Big Business" is an entertaining comedy. It is also a Disney product through and through. It is created by the same corporation that made "The Parent Trap" and it shows. This is a film based on the same mistaken identity and fish out of water genres.
I am with the folks that believe Disney created the Touchstone name so they could cash in on movies that include cussing and nudity, but still maintain their wholesome image. However, I do acknowledge that this film has neither of those, which is good, because if anyone was separated at birth I'm betting it was Lily Tomlin and Mick Jagger. The filmmakers do hurl a not so subtle rock at their chief competitor, Mr. Weinstein by dubbing the evil corporation of the film "Moramax."
Technically writing, the digital transfer is weak. The techs did nothing to improve the look of the film it is often grainy and the special effects are dated, with jarring color differences between the twins and their "clones." Touchstone added no features to the DVD, not even cast bios.
Some of the "cameos" were fun, but one wasn't. I enjoyed seeing a young Seth Meyers as the spoiled child and Louis Rukeyser of "Wall Street Week" getting beaten with a purse. The World Trade Center's twin towers were in several shots and that always takes me out of a film for a few moments.
Interesting choice for the writers/producers to go contrary to type and name red-head rose Midler's character "Sadie" and Tomlin's non-traditional character "Rose."
One must suspend a whole truckload of disbelief to swallow the premise that two sets of twins are born at the same moment at the same rural hospital, mixed up, named the same and then cross paths, multiple times 50 years later without seeing eachother. It is extremely contrived, to say the least. But...if you can do that, you'll be rewarded with a very funny, entertaining hour and a half.
comedic case of mistaken identities February 6, 2008
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!
Lily Tomlin Rocks January 10, 2008
Big Business rocks. It's one of the greatest movies ever made.
Get smart and see it.
This needs to be remastered and re-released. It's a shamed to
see the picture looking so old.
Big Business January 9, 2008
Great movie that has not lost its appeal since I last saw it about 17 years ago. Very entertaining.
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