1988 · farce · mistaken-identity · ensemble
Big Business
Directed by Jim Abrahams1h 37m1988
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.
Our read: Big Business (1988) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive farce · mistaken-identity · ensemble entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle farce / mistaken-identity, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- funny
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