Big Business 1. 98. Wikipedia. Big Business is a 1. American comedy film starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin each playing two roles. The movie revolves around two sets of identical female twins mismatched at birth, with one of each pair ending in a wealthy urban family the Sheltons and the other in a poor rural family the Ratliffs. It was produced by Touchstone Pictures, with the plot loosely based on The Comedy of Errors 1. William Shakespeare. The film co stars Fred Ward, Edward Herrmann, Joe Grifasi, and Seth Green, as well as siblings Michael Gross and Mary Gross. Directed by Jim Abrahams, critical reaction to the film as a whole was generally lukewarm. Midler received an American Comedy Award in the category Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture for her performance, in 1. In 1. 94. 8, wealthy businessman Hunt Shelton and his heavily pregnant wife get lost in rural West Virginia when Mrs. Shelton goes into labor near the town of Jupiter Hollow. At the local hospital, they are turned away because it is exclusively for employees of Hollowmade, the local furniture maker. Mr. Shelton buys the company on the spot, and Mrs. Shelton is then admitted. The Ratliffs, an impoverished couple, arrive moments later with Mrs. Ratliff also in labor. Both women give birth to twin girls, and the elderly nurse attending the doctor confuses and mixes up the sets of twins. Mr. Ratliff overhears the Sheltons deciding to name their daughters Rose and Sadie, and suggests the same names to his wife. Forty years later, the Shelton sisters are now co chairwomen of Moramax in New York City, a conglomerate that is the successor to their fathers business interests. Sadie Shelton Midler is focused on her career to the detriment of her family, while Rose Shelton Tomlin wishes for a simpler life in the country. As part of her business plan, Sadie plans to sell Hollowmade, but must get stockholders approval to proceed. In Jupiter Hollow, Rose Ratliff Tomlin has risen to the position of forewoman at the Hollowmade Factory, and is also very career driven. Meanwhile, Sadie Ratliff Midler has always felt misplaced in rural life and wishes for a more sophisticated life in a big city. Rose discovers Moramaxs plans to sell Hollowmade and makes plans to travel to New York City to stop the sale. The leading information resource for the entertainment industry. Find industry contacts talent representation. Manage your photos, credits, more. Find the latest business news on Wall Street, jobs and the economy, the housing market, personal finance and money investments and much more on ABC News. Over the past two days Ive played roughly 10 hours of Destiny 2, a video game in which players travel through space, marveling at how things can feel so familiar. CHAPTER ONE The Unfinished Presidency Jimmy Carters Journey Beyond the White House. An aspiring author angers her family and breaks conservative social rules in director Ana Urushadzes prizewinning debut Scary Mother. Wanting to see and stay in the city, Sadie agrees to join her sister. While Sadie Shelton makes plans for the shareholders meeting, she learns from her employee Graham Sherbourne that R. Ratliff plans to come to New York with his sister to stop the sale. Sadie orders Sherbourne to locate R. Ratliff to prevent them from appearing at the meeting. A series of mixups at JFK Airport leaves the Shelton sisters stranded while the prospective buyer of Hollowmade, Mr. Unfinished Business Full Movie' title='Unfinished Business Full Movie' />Fabio Alberici, takes their limousine back to the Plaza Hotel with the Ratliff sisters. The Ratliffs are checked into the Sheltons suite, and the Sheltons are forced to take the suite next door, leading to a series of near misses between the four sisters and the men who are pursuing them romantically. In the meantime, Graham and his assistantboyfriend assume that a visitor from Jupiter Hollow, Rose Ratliffs beau Roone Dimmick, is R. Ratliff. All sisters discover their mixup in the lobby bathroom. After Sadie Shelton reveals that she is still planning to sell Hollowmade, the Ratliffs trap Sadie Shelton in the broom closet while Rose Shelton and Sadie Ratliff attend the shareholders meeting and successfully stop the sale of Hollowmade. Both sets of twins later leave the Plaza hotel with their newfound loves. Amazons adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgeralds unfinished novel The Last Tycoon has been canceled, Deadline has confirmed. LOS ANGELES After going silent for almost two years, producers working to salvage The Other Side of the Wind, the unfinished final opus of Orson. ProductioneditThe movie was originally written for Barbra Streisand Midlers role and Goldie Hawn Tomlins role. The plot is a coincidentalcitation needed and playful combination of three previously recognizable stories Aesops The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, Mark Twains The Prince and the Pauper, and Shakespeares Comedy of Errors. The production company could not get the rights to film at the actual Plaza Hotel in New York City, so it had the hotel recreated on sound stages. To recoup construction costs, Disney built a sitcom called The Nutt House around it. It was an expensive flop. Jim Abrahams said he staged one of the boardroom scenes based on an experience he had when a large agency used many employees to get him to sign with them. ReceptioneditCritical reaction to the film as a whole was generally lukewarm. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 3. Sheila Benson from The Los Angeles Times called Big Business a bright whirligig of a movie and added As you watch its buoyant hilarity, the intricacies flow smoothly as honey off a spoon. Like a sensational party the night before, Big Business may not bear the closest scrutiny in the cold light of day, but it gives an irresistible glow at the time. And when it gets on a roll, its a movie with more wit to its lines and a more pungent array of them than much of the mishmash that has passed as Bette Midlers Greatest Movie Hits. Philadelphia Daily News writer Ben Yagoda felt that the film was big fun. Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler are a double dose of hilarity. Call out the National Guard Big Business is a laugh riot. In his review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby remarked that Big Business, though it never quite delivers the boffo payoff, is a most cheerful, very breezy summer farce, played to the hilt by two splendidly comic performers. Sometimes the films writers do have trouble in characterizing the two sets of twins, allowing them to blend in such a way that the comic edge finally becomes blurred. Yet the film moves at such a clip, and with such uncommon zest, that its good fun even when the invention wears thin. Roger Ebert, writing for the Chicago Sun Times, gave the film two out of four stars. He declared the film an endless and dreary series of scenes in which the various twins just barely miss running into each other in the Plaza Hotel, and found that it felt unfinished and missed a payoff. Variety called the film a shrill, unattractive comedy. The staff felt that Midlers loud brashness generally dominated Tomlins sly skittishness. Box officeeditIn the United States, Big Business debuted within the top three on the box office chart and became a modest success, eventually grossing 4. Home MediaeditThe film was released to VHS and laserdisc in 1. Touchstone Home Video, with a DVD release in 2. In 2. 01. 1, Big Business was among a selection of titles from Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures to be licensed to Mill Creek Entertainment, and a DVD and Blu ray disc were released of the film. The DVD is available on its own, as a double feature with Straight Talk, and as a triple feature with Straight Talk and V. I. Warshawski. SoundtrackeditMusic from the Motion Picture albumeditTrack listing. Steve Winwood Higher Love Steve Winwood, Will JenningsLittle Ole Lady Richard Wilbur, Marc ShaimanBenny Goodman Sing, Sing, Sing Louis PrimaPennies from Heaven Johnny Burke, Arthur JohnstonGeorge Benson On Broadway Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Barry Mann, Cynthia WeilThe Trinidad Serenaders Steel Band Music Box Dancer Frank MillsReilly Theme E. ShostakovichIm in the Mood for Love Jimmy Mc. Hugh, Dorothy FieldsReferenceseditAwards for Big Business. MDb. Retrieved 2. Code Red Full Movie. Big Business 1. 98. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved October 2. Benson, Sheila June 1. Midler, Tomlin Do a Twin Turn in Big Business. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 2. Yagoda, Ben June 1. In Business For Big Laughs. Philadelphia Daily News. Retrieved October 2. Canby, Vincent June 1. A Tomlin Midler Comedy of Errors. New York Times. Retrieved October 2. Ebert, Roger 2 May 2. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Chicago Sun Times. Rogert. Ebert. com. Retrieved 3. 0 October 2. Variety Staff December 3. Review Big Business. Variety. Retrieved October 2. Wanda Heads Upstream. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2. 01. 2 0.