Rose Ratliff, however, is a take charge kinda gal who is ready to ruffle some feathers at the Shelton company for trying to go after their company in Jupiter Hollow. She longs for a more simple life, somewhere away from the city. Rose Shelton, is an environmentally conscience person who often feels like she is pulling against everything Sadie Shelton is trying to accomplish as they both run daddy’s company. Her counterpart, Sadie Ratliff has grown up country but for some reason has longed for all of the luxuries of the big city life, never fitting in at her Jupiter Hollow home. Sadie Shelton, from New York City, is a ruthless business executive willing to blur the ethical lines when needed, including a potential buyout of a company she plans on liquidating that happens to be in Jupiter Hollow. Thus, we have one Bette Middler in each family, both of which are named Sadie (Shelton and Ratliff), and one Lily Tomlin in each family named Rose (Shelton and Ratliff). The Ratliffs also overhear the Sheltons naming their girls and give the same names to their two. Each couple takes home one of theirs and one of the other’s children.įor those that might be confused on how this could work, each couple had identical twins, but growing up they saw them as fraternal twins. Through a mistake by the nurse, one of each of the twin girls are mistakenly identified with the wrong last name. At the same hospital, backwoods family, the Ratliffs, are also giving birth to twin girls. Shelton, who is pregnant, has her water break necessitating an emergency stop in Jupiter Hollow to give birth to twin girls. The set-up is that a wealthy New York couple with the last name of Shelton finds themselves driving through rural West Virginia when Mrs.
Both Bette and her co-star, Lily Tomlin, get to play two versions of their characters. Of the two Bette Midler films in this blu-ray double feature, Big Business is the more accessible of the two. The other film in the set, Scenes from a Mall, is from director Paul Mazursky who directed Moscow on the Hudson, and Down and Out in Beverly Hills. Abrahams also directed Midler in the film Ruthless People in 1986. The first film featured in this set, Big Business, is directed by Jim Abrahams who is best known for Airplane!, and The Naked Gun. Kino Lorber has released a double-bill blu-ray that both contain actress Bette Midler that features her in roles that are the polar opposite of one another. STREET DATE: DECEMBER 19, 2017/KINO LORBER STUDIO CLASSICS A Double Helping of Bette Midler Comedies
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