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Big Business (1988)
Director: Jim Abrahams
Cast: Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward, Edward Herrmann
Runtime97 min
RatingPG
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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.
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Big Business (1988) is a critically acclaimed comedy film directed by Jim Abrahams. The film received positive reviews from critics and earned a solid audience rating of 6.1/10 on IMDb. Though it did not receive any major awards recognition, the film is considered an entertaining and humorous take on the mistaken identity premise.
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1988's Big Business, directed by comedy legend Jim Abrahams, offers a delightfully zany blend of mistaken identity and fish-out-of-water hijinks. With comic powerhouses Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin playing mismatched twins swapped at birth, the film delivers a hilarious skewering of class divides and small-town eccentricities.
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Big Business is a 1988 American comedy film starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin, each playing two roles, as sets of identical twins mismatched at birth. The nature versus nurture farce adapts The Comedy of Errors, but with female siblings in contemporary society: one of each twin being reared in a wealthy urban setting, while the others grew up in a poor rural environment.
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