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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children, Adult Language, Profanity Movie Release: 1988 DVD Release: 08/13/2002 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 38 mins Studio: Walt Disney Video Members Wishing: 16 Genres: Comedy, Farce, Comedy of Errors, Odd Couple Film

Thanks to a mix-up at birth, two sets of twins are separated and grow up in radically different social circles. The four baby girls grow up to be Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin-and Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. One of the Midlers is a ruthless New York CEO, while one of the Tomlins is her air-headed "save the whales" business partner. Thousands of miles away in a Southern industrial town, a blue-collar Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin work for a company that the white-collar Midler plans to devour in a hostile takeover. The "poor" Midler and Tomlin head to New York to argue against the takeover, inevitably getting mixed up with the "rich" Midler and Tomlin. Three of the four twins team up to save the small-town company, while CEO Midler remains as nastily greedy as ever. Clear enough? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Bette Midler - Sadie Shelton/ Sadie Ratliff
Lily Tomlin - Rose Shelton
Fred Ward - Roone Dimmick
Edward Herrmann - Graham Sherbourne
Michele Placido - Fabio Alberici

Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin each play duel roles in the switched-at-birth comedy Big Business. The film comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. Supplemental materials are limited to trailers. This is a decent release from Disney/Buena Vista that will satisfy fans of the film, but offers little for the average DVD consumer. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide