Big Business (1988)

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6.4	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Jim Abrahams

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Bette Midler
Sadie Shelton / Sadie Ratliff

Lily Tomlin
Rose Shelton / Rose Ratliff

Fred Ward
Roone Dimmick

Edward Herrmann
Graham Sherbourne

Michele Placido
Fabio Alberici

Daniel Gerroll
Chuck

Barry Primus
Michael

Michael Gross
Dr. Jay Marshall

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An average movie

12 years, 1 month ago at Jan 27 14:06

johanlefourbe

To be honest, I didn’t expect much from this flick but, somehow, I still ended up watching it. After 3 critically acclaimed movies directed with his buddies David Zucker and Jerry Zucker (‘Airplane!’, ‘Top Secret!’, ‘Ruthless People’), Jim Abrahams and the Zucker siblings decided to move forward with some individual project and, for Abrahams, this movie would be his first solo dire... read more

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11 years, 6 months ago at Sep 4 12:07

HobbitHolly

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 pa... read more

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6 years, 4 months ago at Nov 4 5:40

John Barley

Great......

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Two couples of sisters from New York and from the countryside discover that they are connected in an incredible way.

Release date: 10 June 1988
UPC: 786936124590

Tags: 1988 (4), Comedy (4), Friendship (3), 1980s (3), Family (2), Twins (2), Sisters (2), Siblings (2), 80's (1), Margaret Kronfeld (1), Konstantin Bas (1), New Yorkers (1), Switched At Birth (1), Hicks (1), HQ (1), 2009 (1), 1980's (1), Mistaken Identity (1), Funny (1), New York (1)

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“Warning: Spoilers Big Business has always been a movie I love watching from time to time. I will say that Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler never let me down as they got into their completely ludicrous, wacky antics that pay tribute to the old slapstick humor without being too in your face. Bette Midler came out to be the strongest of the two this time though and her performance is again what makes a film. Her character(s) were just so lovable, and Bette Midler's yodel scene was my favorite scene of the movie.

One humongous personal problem I found with the movie, and practically this was the only thing wrong with the film, was I think they should have let more time in for the final meeting scene between all 4 of them. I mean, they finally find their twins, and then it has like 4 min” read more

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" Directed by: Jim Abrahams Produced by: Michael Peter and Steve Hirsch Written by: Don Pierson and Marc Reid Rubel Cinematopgraphy: Dean Cundley Edited by: Harry Keramidas Music by: Lee Holdridge Distributed by: Touchstone Pictutes"