Movie
Big Business
Overview
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 paths.
Details
- Release date
- 1988-06-10
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Genres
- Comedy
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners III
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Bette Midler as Sadie Ratliff / Sadie Shelton
- Lily Tomlin as Rose Ratliff / Rose Shelton
- Fred Ward as Roone Dimmick
- Edward Herrmann as Graham Sherbourne
- Michele Placido as Fabio Alberici
- Daniel Gerroll as Chuck
- Barry Primus as Michael
- Michael Gross as Dr. Jay Marshall
- Deborah Rush as Binky Shelton
- Nicolas Coster as Hunt Shelton
- Patricia Gaul as Iona Ratliff
- J.C. Quinn as Garth Ratliff
Crew
- Jim Abrahams - Director
- Marc Reid Rubel - Writer
- Dori Pierson - Writer
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