Big waste of time

Big Business review

Rated - 2.0 stars

By RJNeb2 from London Avatar image

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Big Business

Director Jim Abrahams
Genres Children, Comedy
Run time 94 mins Certificate PG

1st October 2005

You'd think you'd get bigger and better laughs out of the comic pairing of Midler and Tomlin as 2 sets of identical twins switched at birth and meeting up accidentally in New York as adults, but the resulting pickings here are very slight indeed. Midler overplays to an excessive amount, while Tomlin flutters around in the background. It tries to play like a bad French farce with lots of door-slamming and characters just missing each other. But its the audience and our need for some comedy that they miss.

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