Review of Big Business

An overworked country nurse makes the mistake of a lifetime, and for poor country folk having a set of twins at the same time as a pair of wealthy social butterflies, it results in the mix-up to end all mix-ups. 30 something years go by and years later, Bette Midler is the Alexis Carrington like rich bitch who runs a conglomerate. "Is this how you dress for the office? You look like a blood clot!", she tells the receptionist upon entering her conglomerate. "Twin" Lily Tomlin is the shy sort who has much more scruples than her hard-nosed sister, but there's another set of identical twins in Jupiter Hollow where ironically all four were born within minutes of each other. Jupiter Hollow's Bette yodels as she milks a cow and the tougher Tomlin is out to prevent a big city corporation from tearing down the small community in order to put their own sinister, money making plans in order.

Learning of a big meeting in New York City, the small-town Midler and Tomlin arrive with the intention of interrupting it to prevent the strip mining of their community. Lovers of all four all gather together where all is revealed after a brilliantly staged repeat of the Groucho/Harpo mirror sequence from "Duck Soup". Each actress adds different qualities to each of their roles, so other than wearing the same outfits in one sequence, it is easy to see who is who, which one is the poorly raised one and which one is the wealthilly raised one. The result is a farce of hysterical proportions that is worth seeing over and over again.