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BETTE MIDLER MOVIES BIG BUSINESS MOVIE

Michael Gross’ sister Mary also has a role in the film as Judy.

She co-starred in Beaches and did voice work for Oliver & Company.

This was one of three films that Bette Midler was a part of in 1988 for the Walt Disney Company.

Fred Ward and Michael Gross would also co-star in Tremors.

Big Business not only shares a twin plot line with fellow 1988 film Big, but both movies also shot scenes at the famed FAO Schwartz store.

The Sadie and Rose characters are named after one of the screenwriter’s mother and twin sister.

Big Business was written with Barbara Streisand and Goldie Hawn in mind to play the lead roles.

The film is loosely based on Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors.

Seth Green plays Bette Midler’s son Jason in the film.

If you are not a fan of twin comedy movies, then Big Business isn’t for you. I love the fact that Midler and Tomlin played strong-willed and capable women who aren’t afraid to go it alone and don’t need the help of any man.īig Business is predictable and filled with typical plot points that are recycled from every twin film. The look on the cow’s face still has me giggling as I write this.

BETTE MIDLER MOVIES BIG BUSINESS MOVIE

Tomlin’s gift to the screen is that she convinces the audience her Rose Shelton is out of place in her world, while then playing a hard-driving determined Rose Ratliff who plans to take on Moramax and win.īig Businessis a genuinely funny movie and for all the little moments of humor, I laughed out loud when Midler’s Sadie Ratliff was introduced singing a song while milking a cow at a county fair. Lily Tomlin matches Midler at every turn in her hilarious portrayal of the dreamy Rose Shelton and the hard-nosed Rose Ratliff. Both Midler and Tomlin are heartwarming and silly in their portrayals of the urban rich and the country bumkins. Midler and Tomlin’s talent shines throughout the film with their two very different characters. Their two different Sadie and Rose characters are unique and only share the same names and nothing else. Cinematic Complimentsīette Midler and Lily Tomlin are excellent at playing dual personalities. They deduce how they were probably switched at birth by a bumbling old nurse at the Juniper Hollow hospital where the four women were born.ĭespite Sadie Shelton’s objections, the furniture company is saved, and the film ends with a mix match of the characters finding their own happiness. Even Moramax executive Graham Sherbourne (Edward Hermann) has trouble telling the women apart.Ī stop at the bathroom before entering the shareholders meeting brings the two groups of sisters together. Jay Marshall (Michael Gross) no one can tell which Sadie and Rose is which. From the Plaza Hotel manager, Rose Ratliff’s boyfriend Roone (Fred Ward), and Rose Shelton’s boyfriend Dr. When the Ratliff’s arrive in New York a combination of mistaken identity, and a lack of knowledge about the circumstances of their birth causes the two sets of twins to have varied experiences in the city. Planning to crash the Moramax shareholders meeting in New York City, Rose convinces Sadie to join her on the journey. Rose is looking to save the local furniture company, while Sadie just wants to get out of rural life.

Sadie and Rose Ratliff (Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin) are sisters from Juniper Hollow. Sadie plans to sell the company off at the forthcoming Moramax shareholders meeting. When Moramax is looking to offload the furniture company their father acquired at the time of their birth in Juniper Hollow, neither think much of the company or the consequences of their actions.

Rose is less business savvy and is out of touch with the needs of the company. Sadie is the CEO and ruthless in gaining profit for their company. Sadie and Rose Shelton (Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin) are both working at their family company Moramax. Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin bring the laughs in this classic comedy of mistaken identity. Everyone loves a twin mix up comedy, and in 1988, Touchstone Pictures delivered on this very reliable plotline with a double dose of twins in Big Business.