Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

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CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Davis P I really wish more films like this Bette Midler/Lily Tomlin comedy were made. This movie has all the right things going for it. It has a perfect cast, every cast member fits his or her role perfectly. Midler plays both Sadie Shelton and Sadie Ratliff. Sadie Shelton is like a 1988 version of Miranda Priestly from The Devil wears Prada, even the scene where she enters the building for work is almost identical to the same scene in the 2006 Anne Hathaway movie. And Sadie Ratliff is a country girl from a small town called Jupiter Hollow, who aspires to live in a big city and go shopping and have all the finer things. On the flip side, Rose Shelton is Sadie Shelton's twin sister who hates the city and her job and wants a slower quieter life. Then of course Rose Ratliff is Sadie Ratliff's twin sister. Only they don't know that two of the twin sisters were switched at birth and that explains why Rose Shelton hates the city and why Sadie Ratliff wants to leave the country as quick as possible. The dynamic is played hilariously by both Tomlin and Midler, especially when they discover this shocking thing towards the end of the film. The writing is very funny and there is a generous amount of good lines for every cast member. I also thought Fred Ward was a great choice to play Roon, the man in love with Rose Ratliff. There's also a fantastic soundtrack to the movie. Ever heard the song Higher Love by Steve Winwood?? Well I can't hear that song without thinking of this movie. 10/10!

annmason24 This is a fun film for a rainy day. It is nice to hang out at the Plaza Hotel for an hour or so. Bette Midler steals the show, but with the full cooperation of Lily Tomlin, who is extremely annoying. Miss Tomlin pants her way through the New York character and "hicks" her way through the other. Neither is anywhere near believable, and the viewer needs a remote to fast forward through her scenes. The more I watch this film, the more and more grating is Lily Tomlin's voice. She seems to want to convey stress by panting and panting and panting, only relieved by flapping her hands and losing her shoulder pad before panting and flapping some more.If I were the New York City Sadie, I would have dumped this this nails-on-the-chalkboard Sis long before she inherited.

vintkd "Big Business" is one of my favorite comedy from my childhood but to really understand its humor I could just today. Superstars of comedies from 80s Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin on the screen played several characters and done it perfect and very laughable. They were changing their images literally every second and looked very naturally. I like in this movie what everything happens very fast and dynamically and you don't boring no one minute. It's very important what humor in "Big Business" is very kind and not vulgar and therefore it's a perfect movie for evening watching with family. By the way I was nice surprised seen in this film an Italian actor Michele Placido, who I remember as Commissario Corrado Cattani from excellent old TV show "La piovra". He was a hero for me and my friends in my childhood. Then he was very serious and brutal but in "Big Business" he is incredibly funny and it's stunningly.

nycritic It's possible I may be a dim bulb, since I'm probably one of few people who love movies who find a lot to like in Jim Abrahams' screwball comedy BIG BUSINESS starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. I love build-ups to a climactic scene and this movie is pregnant with it -- of course, being screwball, the situation/premise is way out there on a flimsy limb but who cares? Seeing these two extremely funny women with distinctive comedic styles playing against each other, gravitating towards a final showdown at the Plaza Hotel which delivers on every level, strung along by a plot that just gets crazier and crazier, is really a stroke of genius. I loved this movie, I still do, and truth be damned, I think it's hilarious to the nth degree.