It's a Wonderful Life (1946), The Apartment (1960), The Insider (1999), Sorcerer (1977), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Born Yesterday (1950), Here We Go Again (1942), The Price of Sugar (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Big Business movies.
Storyline: Jane Osgood is trying to support her two young children by running a lobster business. After one of her shipments is ruined by inattention at the railroad station, Jane decides to take on Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest man in the world". With the help of her lifelong friend - and lawyer - George Denham, Jane sues Malone for the price of her lobsters & her lost business. What she ends up with is a lot more than either of them bargained for.—April M. Cheek <Aravis2713@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: small-business owner, railroad tycoon, lawyer, reporter, amusing, charming, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths following a big business deal to closedown the Jupiter Hollow factory.
Plot Keywords: twin, businesswoman, farmer, sister, tycoon, madcap, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the future humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called "The Union". The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don't pay your bill, "The Union" sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property... with no concern for your comfort or survival. Former soldier Remy is one of the best organ repo men in the business. But when he suffers a cardiac failure on the job, he awakens to find himself fitted with the company's top-of-the-line heart-replacement... as well as a hefty debt. But a side effect of the procedure is that his heart's no longer in the job. When he can't make the payments, The Union sends its toughest enforcer, Remy's former partner Jake, to track him down.
Plot Keywords: repo man, wife, partner, doctor, salesman, singer, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a near-empty Northfork orphanage, Father Harlan gently tends to Irwin, an eight-year-old who lies between a dream state and death. As orphanage caretaker Harlan reads aloud about Northfork's years-ago forced evacuation to make way for a hydro-electric dam, Irwin's imagination takes flight. While a team of six men evacuate the last remaining citizens of the town, Irwin, too, invents a cast of characters to prepare himself for his own evacuation. (the above states the caretaker - who is actually the priest - is reading about a years-ago evacuation. In the movie, the evacuation is taking place as the boy lays dying!)—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: priest, orphan, businessman, angel, dreamy, touching, montana ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ted Ryker is the top salesman in the New York office of a business machine company; the corporate stock lives by quarterly sales numbers, the competition is keen, and the economy may be in a downturn. Ted's company is marking time until a new product is ready - probably in a few months. Into the mix comes a new hire, a callow Midwesterner named Jamie, who's come East with his fiancée Belisa. Ted's a cynic - with a failed love in his past; he's profane, he's a lousy team player. He watches Jamie flounder, failing with presentation after presentation. Then, Ted finds a mutual attraction to Belisa. Where can this end?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: salesman, protégé, fiancée, manager, corporate spy, mastermind, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the depressed town of Eagle Rock, Reverend Brooks (Dick Van Dyke) spearheads his community's effort to rise to the Cold Turkey challenge. The Valiant Tobacco Company has promised a $25,000 cash prize to any town in America that can quit smoking for 30 days. So Brooks leads the charge in this Battle of the Butts, hoping to become the local hero in the process. However, when ad executive Merwin Wren (Bob Newhart) shows up to undermine his efforts, this wicked comedy kicks into high gear.
Plot Keywords: ad executive, preacher, executive, doctor, hilarious, witty, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: marketing executive, entrepreneur, secretary, single mother, waiter, ex-husband, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The continuing adventures of the barbers at Calvin's Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his business. Calvin is again struggling to keep his father's shop and traditions alive--this time against urban developers looking to replace mom and pop establishments with name-brand chains. The world changes, but some things never go out of style--from current events and politics to relationships and love, you can still say anything you want at the barbershop.
Plot Keywords: businessman, barber, rival, friend, love interest, lighthearted, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two French Canadian ne'er-do-wells travel to New York City with a scheme to get rich quick selling Christmas trees. Easygoing charmer Rene (Paul Rudd) clashes with misanthropic ex-con Dennis (Paul Giamatti), whose wife Rene just stole. Still, this odd couple must make an honest go of it in this buddy comedy.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: mate, ex-partner, rival, amusing, new york city, jail, christmas ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.—Dave Smith <dave@stat.colostate.edu>
Plot Keywords: housewife, husband, son, daughter, businessman, lab worker, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The two owners of the Long Shot Copies shop struggle against a copying giant, King Co. Having gotten their start from a one hundred thousand dollar windfall when one of them hit a promotional mid-court basketball shot, they have to find a way to keep their company afloat or fold. Thus starts a series of gimmicks and a war against the opposition, particularly after they are visited by a corporate thug.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: entrepreneur, best friend, corporate stooge, girlfriend, rapper, businessman, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three brash and cocky powder mixers are sent to South America to work at a dynamite plant there.
Plot Keywords: factory worker, secretary, best friend, latina, explosives expert, hilarious, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Suzanne Somers, an environmentally concerned lawyer, was hired by Donald Sutherland to halt the construction on a breeding ground of endangered species of seals. In HD.
Plot Keywords: professor, lawyer, corporate stooge, military officer, politician, amusing, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hoping to make enough money through an overseas employer to live comfortably, Real Estate Developer Dan Sanders manages to convince his son, Tyler, and wife, Tammy, to re-locate in a remote corner of Oregon. Tyler does seem content after he meets with lovely Amber, but Tammy is concerned about her husband when he near-hysterically claims that local creatures, including beavers, ravens, bears, fox, etc. have joined forces to sabotage his project.
Plot Keywords: real estate broker, boss, wife, son, real estate developer, talking animal, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A brilliant scientist is plucked out of the company lab and sent to India to sell the genetically modified rice she created - which she doesn't realize will destroy the farmers she thinks she's helping.
Plot Keywords: scientist, farmer, young woman, winsome, uplifting, suspenseful, striking ...
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