Big Business

Name: Big Business
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1924-02-09
Rating: 6.4

Comedy25m

🍅52%

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52%

Tomatometer

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69%

Popcornmeter

6.4

TMDB

Storyline

In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt, but most of the customers wind up bald or close to it: one kid even gets a prematurely fashionable Mohawk! Scenes involving close calls with sharp scissors might make some viewers wince, while the manicurist uses a device that looks like a wire-cutter.

Details

DirectorRobert F. McGowan

ReleasedFeb 9, 1924

StatusReleased

Reviews

7 reviews · 6 critics

4 fresh · 2 rotten

Pauline Kael

RTThe New YorkerSep 15, 2023

Midler is a classic figure -- a grinning urchin out of Volpone. Her appetite is the audience’s appetite. It’s as if she and we were passing a flask of euphoria back and forth.

Roger Ebert

RTChicago Sun-TimesJan 1, 2000

People running into each other can be funny, but when they just miss, what are we supposed to do? Slap our knees and say, "Lord a-mighty, they dern near ran into each other and wouldn't that have been funny!"

Quentin Crisp

RTChristopher StreetMay 7, 2024

This is easily the most enjoyable film that we have seen since Down and Out in Beverly Hills.

Kristin Battestella

RTInSession FilmJul 25, 2023

Midler and Tomlin master four separate characterizations with zingers, press on nails, mint juleps, and sass to match.