Tours including Big Business
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Tours that feature Big Business
New York TV & Movie Tour
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Customer Reviews“I would highly recommend it to fans of hit movies & TV shows... I was interested in seeing sites from movies filmed in the 60's through the 80's. ”
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“My solution to the strike was to hop aboard an On Location Tours bus to see some of NYC’s most famed movie and TV locations live and in 3-D.”
-Entertainment Weekly, Jan. 2008
Take the New York TV and Movie Sites Tour, Classics Tour, or Central Park Movie Sites Tour, and feel like you just stepped out of a scene from your favorite film. Exciting locations from the 80’s movie Big Business are featured on all three of these tours, along with many other memorable sites.
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. One is born to a poor local family, and the other to a rich family just passing through. The ditzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins. Flash forward to the 1980s, when the mismatched sets of twins cross paths at the Plaza Hotel, and the rich sisters are involved in a business deal to shut down a factory in the poor rural town of Jupiter Hollow, where the poor sisters live.
The comedy stars Bette Midler as both Sadies. A two-time Oscar Nominee and a Grammy Award Winner, Bette Midler is a successful, comedian, and author. She has sold in excess of 15 million albums worldwide. She has also starred in numerous films such as Beaches, Stella, Hocus Pocus, Gypsy, Get Shorty, The First Wives Club, What Women Want, The Stepford Wives, and The Women.
Lilly Tomlin plays both Roses. Tomlin was a pre-med student at Wayne State University before choosing to act instead. The successful comedian won the Kennedy Center's prestigious Mark Twain Prize for Humor in 2003. She was also nominated for an Oscar and has won numerous Emmy Awards. She was featured in many episodes of Saturday Night Live. She has also starred in shows and films such as Laugh-In, Moment By Moment, Nine to Five, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, The Beverly Hillbillies, Flirting with Disaster, Getting Away with Murder, Will and Grace, The West Wing, The Pink Panther 2, and Desperate Housewives.
On all three of these great New York City Sightseeing tours, you will get a chance to see the famous Plaza Hotel. This is the exact location where the two sets of twins reunite in the bathroom! The Plaza has been feature in countless New York City films, such as The Way We Were, Home Alone 2, Bride Wars, North by Northwest, The First Wives Club, Almost Famous, and Crocodile Dundee, among many others. On the TV and Movie Sites Tour as well as the Classics Tour, you will also get a look at New York’s FAO Schwarz, the ultimate toy store. This is where Bette Midler’s character ties up her twin sister’s son. You’ll also remember this great location from other films such as Baby Boom and Big.
See these locations and others from all of your favorite shows and movies. Make one of these fun, guided tours a part of your New York vacation.
* In an effort to stay current, we are constantly updating our tours with new locations and cannot guarantee the presence of locations mentioned on our site. If you have a particular interest in locations from a specific TV show or movie, please let your tour guide know and we will do our best to accomodate your request.
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