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Big Business

4.9

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Original title

Big Business

Year

1988

Running time

95 min.

Country

United States

Director

Jim Abrahams

Screenwriter

Dori Pierson, Marc Reid Rubel

Cast

Music

Lee Holdridge

Cinematography

Dean Cundey

Producer

Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners III

Genre

Comedy

Synopsis

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 following a big business deal to closedown the Jupiter Hollow factory.

Critics' reviews

"'Big Business', which, though it never quite delivers the boffo payoff, is a most cheerful, very breezy summer farce, played to the hilt by two splendidly comic performers"

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"The film often looks third class, and the director, Jim Abrahams, doesn't have the knack of making the details click into place."

Pauline Kael: The New Yorker
"Like a sensational party the night before, 'Big Business' may not bear the closest scrutiny in the cold light of day, but it gives an irresistible glow at the time"

Sheila Benson: Los Angeles Times
"A shrill, unattractive comedy."

Variety Staff: Variety
"Ultimately lost in it's own contrivances, Big Business still manages a few laughs thanks to it's big name leading lady."

William Thomas: Empire

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User history

Big Business

1988

Jim Abrahams

4.9

(2,338)