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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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Coincidences can work very well as the basis for comedy plots. However, if coincidences are too convenient or too numerous, they might create certain problems. This is what happened to the script for *Big Business*, 1988 comedy directed by Jim Abrachams. The plot begins in late 1940s West Virgina where rich New York businessman Hunt Shelton (played by Nicolas Coster) happens to travel with his pregnant wife Binky (p…More
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I have seen Big Business, a movie starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin, several times over the years when I've caught it on television. I just watched the movie again. sourceMore
