Big Business
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- funny
Warm, breathless, gentle farce / mistaken-identity, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →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. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Big Business
What watching it is actually like.
“You want eighties twin-swap slapstick with Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin.”
Skip it tonight — You hate broad corporate farce and chaotic mistaken-identity comedy nonsense.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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