It’s Rich Sadie, however, who steals the show for me. Poor Rose is certainly amusing in her bossy-but-small-minded local yokel skepticism. There’s a definite, old fashioned nature>nurture mentality at work in Big Business, though, so the individual sisters who lucked into being raised in their “rightful” class environments are the more fun characters to watch, because their confidence is infectious. It’s difficult to say which performance stands out most here between the two actresses, not because there isn’t a clear winner, but because the movie splits their performances into four quadrants: Rich Sadie & Poor Sadie (Midler) and Rich Rose & Poor Rose (Tomlin). However, it’s pretty clear that they both had a part they had more fun playing. Portraying such different characters must’ve been such a difficult task for these comedy queens, but they both deliver.īrandon, were you impressed by the versatile performances from Midler and Tomlin? Or were they just mediocre?īrandon: I mean, Midler & Tomlin are both phenomenal personalities in general, so it’d be a total lie to say that anything they do or say is mediocre. Midler plays a bitchy NYC snob (Sadie Shelton) and a kind small-town girl looking for adventure (Sadie Ratliff), and Tomlin plays a sweet, softspoken city girl (Rose Shelton) and a rough n’ tough country gal (Rose Ratliff). The performances by Midler and Tomlin are insanely impressive in this film. Eventually, the two sets of twins end up in NYC at the same time, and all sorts of wacky things happen. About 40 years later, Sadie and Rose Shelton (Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin) are rich business women living in NYC while Sadie and Rose Ratliff (Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin) are country bumpkins living in Jupiter Hollow. The Sheltons and the Ratliffs coincidentally both name their twin daughters Rose and Sadie, and a kooky old nurse mixes up the sets of identical twins. One woman, Binky Shelton (Deborah Rush), is a big city snob that just so happened to go into labor while passing through Jupiter Hollow with her husband, but the other woman, Iona Ratliff (Patricia Gaul), is a local. In a small town called Jupiter Hollow, two women give birth to two sets of identical twin girls at the same time at a local hospital. There’s not much love out there for this comic masterpiece, and it really does deserve some recognition. Needless to say, I was thrilled to find out that no one in the Swampflix crew had seen Big Business before, so I was able to make it my Movie of the Month selection for February. I can still see that sun-damaged, styrofoam-stuffed VHS cover sitting on the shelf just waiting for me to grab it. This month Britnee made Boomer, Brandon, and Erin watch Big Business (1988).īritnee: Many years ago, there was a local video rental shop in my hometown called Slick Sam’s (sounds more like a dirty sex shop), and that’s where I first came across one of my all-time favorite movies, Jim Abrahams’ 1988 comedy, Big Business. Every month one of us makes the rest of the crew watch a movie they’ve never seen before & we discuss it afterwards.
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