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).
Prologue: Mr. and Mrs. Shelton get lost ...
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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).
Prologue: Mr. and Mrs. Shelton get lost in the middle of West Virginia looking for some friends' summer house but Mrs. Shelton begins having her baby and stop at the Ratliffs' asking for directions for the nearest hospital, they end up going to the Jupiter Hollow Hospital but the doctor will not check them in because it is for employees of Hollowmade only, so Mr. Shelton buys the company on the spot, the Ratliffs arrive at the same time also with Mrs. Ratliff in labor. The doctor tends both births at the same time and the elderly nurse gets confused and mixes the children.
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