Wanting to see the city, Sadie agrees to join her sister. Rose discovers Moramax's plans to sell Hollowmade, and makes plans to travel to New York City to stop the sale. Meanwhile, Sadie Ratliff has always felt misplaced in rural life, and wishes for a more sophisticated life in a big city. In Jupiter Hollow, Rose Ratliff has risen to the position of forewoman at the Hollowmade Factory, and is also very career-driven. As part of her business plan, Sadie plans to sell Hollowmade, but must get stockholders' approval to proceed. Sadie Shelton is focused on her career to the detriment of her family, while Rose Shelton wishes for a simpler life in the country. Ratliff overhears the Sheltons deciding to name their daughters Rose and Sadie, and suggests the same names to his wife.įorty years later, the Shelton sisters are now co-chairwomen of Moramax in New York City, a conglomerate that is the successor to their father's business interests.

Both women give birth to twin girls, and the elderly nurse attending the doctor confuses and mixes up the sets of twins. The Ratliffs, an impoverished couple, arrive moments later with Mrs. Shelton purchases the company on the spot, and Mrs. At the local hospital, they are turned away, because it is exclusively for employees of Hollowmade, the local furniture maker. Shelton goes into labor near the town of Jupiter Hollow. In 1948, wealthy businessman Hunt Shelton and his pregnant wife are lost in rural West Virginia when Mrs. Both Midler and Tomlin were nominated for the American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture for their performances with Midler winning. Directed by Jim Abrahams, critical reaction to the film as a whole was generally lukewarm. Produced by Touchstone Pictures, the film co-stars Fred Ward, Edward Herrmann, Joe Grifasi, and Seth Green, as well as siblings Michael Gross and Mary Gross. The nature versus nurture farce adapts The Comedy of Errors, but with female siblings in contemporary society: one of each twin being reared in a wealthy urban setting, while the others grew up in a poor rural environment. A farce of mistaken identity, a confused ex-husband, and equally confused suitors ensues.Big Business is a 1988 American comedy film starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin, each playing two roles, as sets of identical twins mismatched at birth. Country Rose, the factory foreman, arrives with sister Sadie in New York to protest the sale at Moramax's Plaza Hotel board meeting. Rose, although a Moramax VP, feels an inexplicable longing for country living, gardens, and goats, and vainly tries to fight her sister. City Sadie, greedy and profit-oriented, wants to unload that furniture factory, putting 500 citizens out of work and laying the land bare to strip-mining. The city-raised twins inherited their father's corporate monolith, Moramax, which owns the factory town where all four were all born. The pairs, named Sadie ( Bette Midler) and Rose ( Lily Tomlin) and Sadie and Rose, find themselves on opposite sides of a corporate struggle.

The plot takes up when the twins, mismatched by an overworked nurse, are all gearing up for battle. In BIG BUSINESS, two sets of identical twins are born in a rural hospital, one to local parents and the other to city slickers from New York.

Big business 1988 film