Big Business is a 1988 American farcical comedy film starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. Produced by Touchstone Pictures and loosely based on The Comedy of Errors (1589—1594) by William Shakespeare.
The movie revolves around two pairs of identical female twins who were mixed up as newborns, with one pair ending in a wealthy urban family (the Sheltons) and the other in a poor rural family (the Ratliffs).
Some 40 years later the Sheltons have re...
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Big Business is a 1988 American farcical comedy film starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. Produced by Touchstone Pictures and loosely based on The Comedy of Errors (1589—1594) by William Shakespeare.
The movie revolves around two pairs of identical female twins who were mixed up as newborns, with one pair ending in a wealthy urban family (the Sheltons) and the other in a poor rural family (the Ratliffs).
Some 40 years later the Sheltons have reached the presidency of their familiy owned company Moramax but their personalities are quite different, while Sadie Shelton (Midler) is focused on her career and making profits, Rose Shelton (Tomlin) wishes for a simpler life in the country tending her family and a little farm, which caused a breakup with her boyfriend. One particular business scheme that Sadie passes on to the Board of Moramax for approval by stockholders is the off loading of a small company located in Jupiter Hollow which manufactures wood furniture (the company was bought...
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