The conflict comes when the rich sisters try to destroy the small town whether the other sisters live, causing the pairs to finally meet. One pair is raised in a small town, and the other by a rich family in New York City. One twin from each set is unknowingly replaced with the other, so instead of two sets of twins, there is the same pair of sisters in two different families. Rich Sibling, Poor Sibling: The film has this happen to two sets of identical twin girls.Sadie Shelton is a bullying, self-indulgent Corrupt Corporate Executive while her (legal) sister is a Shrinking Violet and her biological sister a sweet-natured dreamer (albeit still one who longs for the finer things) while Rose Ratliff is stubborn, head-strong and suspicious of city-life. Polar Opposite Twins: Both biologically, and legally.One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Happens quite a bit as the different pairs of sisters run into people who think that they're the other pair.Nice Guy: Roone Dimmick and Jay Marshall, the two Sadie's love interests.Massive Numbered Siblings: The Ratliffs had about eight kids even before Rose and Sadie were born.Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Rose and Sadie Ratliff wear several purple dresses and are nice women out to save the jobs of their neighbors.Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Sadie Ratliff loves fancy dresses and singing before a crowd, but also knows how to wrestle a hog.Sadie Ratliff sings a song at a fundraiser and loves being the center of attention.Rose Ratliff makes a fiery speech at a county fair denouncing the Sheltons' company.Rose Shelton arrives at the office with a stray dog she just adopted, politely greets the receptionist, forgets where a meeting is being held, and talks about how nice a simple life would be.Sadie then marches in, being a Mean Boss and Corrupt Corporate Executive (she resents spending so much money on making sure products are safe) while mentioning that she was buying stock before she turned 13. When a secretary yells that Sadie is arriving at the office, all of the employees panic and try to look busy.Establishing Character Moment: All four of the main characters.Country Mouse: Roone is a dim, good-natured, small-town West Virginian who is prone to Fish out of Water moments in New York.Corrupt Corporate Executive: Sadie Shelton, and the Italian businessman she's dealing with (to the point where they hit it off romantically while talking business).Cool Aunt: Rose Shelton happily plays with her nephew when his father brings him by the office.Decades later, this becomes more detrimental as the Sheltons consider selling the factory. During the Distant Prologue, when a wealthy woman is in labor, and is refused admittance to the hospital, her husband races to the house of the owner and buys the company from him on the spot. Company Town: Jupiter Hollow is run lock, stock and barrel by the Hollowmade Furniture Company, with the local hospital only being accessible to Hollowmade employees.Camp Gay: The two partners (both professionally and privately) assigned by Sadie Shelton to meet with the Ratliffs are fairly flamboyant.When he mistakes Sadie Ratliff for his mom in a store and she disciplines him, this leads to his father developing some feelings for her (although he does think it's his ex-wife). Bratty Half-Pint: Sadie Shelton's son (which is part of why she divorced his father).Blatant Lies: Sadie Shelton assures her sister and the board of her company that the residents of Jupiter Hollow want to close down the furniture company right before a Gilligan Cut to the fair which is raising money to protest the closure.Hilarity Ensues as the twins start narrowly missing each other. Forty years later, Sadie Shelton is preparing to shut down the plant in Jupiter Hollow, while the Ratliff sisters travel to the city to try and stop the sale. For added confusion, both pairs of twins get named Rose and Sadie. A near-sighted nurse accidentally mixes them up so each family leaves with one of their daughters, and one of the other's. The film starts in 1948 when two pairs of Identical twin sisters are born at a hospital in the town of Jupiter Hollow, West Virginia, one to a local family (the Ratliffs), one to a multi-millionare couple passing through town, the Sheltons (who also buy the local factory). Big Business is a 1988 comedy film directed by Jim Abrahams, starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin as two sets of mismatched identical twins.
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