Cinema: Country Girls vs. Manhattan Ladies BIG BUSINESS

Directed by Jim Abrahams Screenplay by Dori Pierson and Marc Rubel

High Concept is the no-fault insurance of the entertainment business, a brief description that both sells and sums up a movie or TV show. So leave it to the folks at Disney, the Everest of High Concept, to produce a movie based on this line: "Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin as twin twins." All twists and splits of the story proceed from this inspiration; the concept propels the plot. After a merging of those stars and that theme, everything else is just homework.

Here's how it goes. Two sets of twins -- rich girls Rose and Sadie Shelton and poor girls...

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