![]() These scenes are givens - and should have been given away, to make room for laughs that could come from characters, dialogue and conflict. In the least amusing of several would-be running gags, a bum outside the hotel does double-takes when he thinks he’s seeing double. by Arrangement with Warner Special Products. One doesn’t recognize the Italian but the other one does. Written by JERRY LIEBER, MIKE STOLLER, BARRY MANN and CYNTHIA WEIL. One begins a breakfast and the other finishes it. After the babies have been switched and the premise has been set up, far too much time is spent with the futile manipulation of the four characters in the hotel. The fundamental problems of the movie all can be traced, I suspect, back to the screenplay. The Jupiter Hollow Midler seems unfocused, and both Tomlins seem to be the same rather vague woman who has trouble with her shoulderpads. The most promising character probably is Sadie Shelton, Midler’s New York company executive, who has the potential to be a bitch on wheels but never realizes it. Midler and Tomlin can be funny actors, but here they both seem muted and toned down in all of the characters they play. The life all seems to have escaped from this movie. The ditzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins. ![]() One is born to a poor local family, and the other to a rich family just passing through. The impending sale inspires the Jupiter Hollow women to travel up north to New York for the annual stockholder’s meeting of the company controlled by the Manhattan women.īoth sets of women check into the Plaza Hotel at the same time, inspiring numerous flat and tedious scenes that are structured as if they were intended to be slapstick. In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. The 1988 comedy Big Business starts off in the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, when two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. ![]() Meanwhile, the New York Midler wants to sell out the factory and the town to a shifty Italian investor who wants to strip-mine the whole county right off the map. They work in the local factory, which has manufactured porch swings from time immemorial. But the Midler/Tomlin team from down South in Jupiter Hollow is a little nicer. After a wish turns 12-year-old Josh Baskin (David Moscow) into a 30-year-old man (Tom Hanks), he heads to New York City and gets a low-level job at MacMillen Toy Company. Both Midlers are conniving and materialistic, and both Tomlins are flutter-brained and well-meaning. In its presentation of the two sets of non-twins, the movie backs genetics rather than environment as the prime formative factor in human development.
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