The ensuing confusion depends on mistaken identities, trick photography, and elevator doors opening and closing at precisely the right time, climaxing when the four women converge in a ladies’ room. Each pair gets booked into a suite at the Plaza Hotel, where the Italian, two troubleshooters for Sadie Shelton (Edward Herrmann and Daniel Gerroll), and eventually Rose Ratliff’s fiance (Fred Ward), a miniature-golf pro, are also staying. Rural Rose, Hollowmade’s feisty foreman, flies to New York with her sister to protest and block this move. Sadie (Bette Midler) and Rose Shelton (Lily Tomlin), respectively aggressive and maladjusted, grow up to be New York executives, and their identical siblings, Sadie (Bette Midler) and Rose Ratliff (Lily Tomlin), grow up to be respectively maladjusted and aggressive down-homers.Ĭity Sadie wants to sell Jupiter Hollow’s main business - the Hollowmade Furniture Company, left to her and her sister by their father - to an Italian businessman (Michele Placido) who wants to level it for strip-mining and condos. Two sets of twins are born in an understaffed hospital in Jupiter Hollow, a southern backwater - one to a wealthy couple from New York, the other to local yokels - and the babies are accidentally switched.
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What’s left on the table, apart from the delightful Bull Durham, are two mindless romps, each of which makes use of that veritable standby, the double plot.īig Business, a farce whose main premise seems to be that two times Bette Midler plus Lily Tomlin equals hilarity and double your pleasure, has everything but a script and direction, which means it hardly has anything at all. Paul Mayersberg’s perversely fascinating Nightfall - a head-scratching, low-budget blend of Isaac Asimov, Raul Ruiz, Jasper Johns, and psychedelic Corman movies of the 60s - departed for oblivion (or perhaps for video) before I could review it. Two interesting-sounding films that might have enlivened this year’s doldrums - Zelly and Me and Stars and Bars, both associated with David Puttnam’s brief stint as head of Columbia - have been unceremoniously dumped by their distributors in suburban Hillside. The silly season of summer releases is fully upon us, that time of year when expensive potboilers tend to be the only movies out there demanding our attention. With Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed O’Ross, Larry Fishburne, and Gina Gershon. Written by Harry Kleiner, Hill, and Troy Kennedy Martin
With Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward, Edward Herrmann, Michele Placido, Daniel Gerroll, and Barry Primus.
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