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Big Business is a 1988 comedy film starring Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler. Its premise was two pairs of identical twins who were mixed up as babies. One Midler-Tomlin pair ends up in a rich urban family, while the other pair ends up in a poor rural family, and coincidentally the rich twins seek to strip mine the small town, called Jupiter Hollow, in which the poor twins live. Both pairs run into each other at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan in this comical farce.

Cast

Bette Midler
- Sadie Shelton / Ratliff
Lily Tomlin
- Rose Shelton / Ratliff
Michael Gross
- Dr. Jay Marshall
Barry Primus
- Michael
Michele Placido
- Fabio Alberici
Fred Ward
- Roone Dimmick
Seth Green
- Jason
Daniel Gerroll - Chuck
Edward Herrmann
- Graham Sherbourne

Trivia

The movie was originally written for Barbra Streisand
(Midler's role) and Goldie Hawn
(Tomlin's role).
The structure of the film was based loosely on "The Comedy of Errors" by William Shakespeare.
The production company couldn't get the rights to film at the actual Plaza hotel in New York, so it had it recreated on sound stages. To recoup construction costs, Disney built a sitcom called "The Nutt House" around it. It was an expensive flop.
Jim Abrahams
said he staged one of the boardroom scenes based on an experience he had when a large agency used many employees to get him to sign with them.

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