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== [[Film]] ==
== [[Film]] ==
* A similar theme is used in the 1988 film ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094739/ Big Business]'' with Lilly Tomlin and Bette Midler playing the mismatched sets of twins - each named Rose (Tomlin) and Sadie (Midler) - of a rural working family and a wealthy urban family. Unusually, in the end neither birth nor upbringing turns out to provide the stronger link between the women; instead, urban Rose and country Sadie are [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|Wide Eyed Idealists]] while country Rose and urban Sadie are aggressive and cynical.
* A similar theme is used in the 1988 comedy-of-errors film ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094739/ Big Business]'' with Lilly Tomlin and Bette Midler playing the mismatched sets of twins [[Separated at Birth|separated and swapped at birth]] of a [[The City vs. the Country|rural working family]] and a wealthy urban family – each named Rose (Tomlin) and Sadie (Midler). Unusually, in the end neither birth nor upbringing turns out to provide the stronger link between the women; instead, urban Rose and country Sadie are [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|Wide Eyed Idealists]] while country Rose and urban Sadie are aggressive and cynical.
* Parodied in the film ''Delirious'', where a man trapped inside a soap opera is outraged with the changes its current head writer is making. One of them is the show's idealistic heroine being revealed to have been switched at birth with the daughter of the rich villainous family that runs the whole town, causing her to INSTANTLY become exactly like them.
* Parodied in the film ''Delirious'', where a man trapped inside a soap opera is outraged with the changes its current head writer is making. One of them is the show's idealistic heroine being revealed to have been switched at birth with the daughter of the rich villainous family that runs the whole town, causing her to INSTANTLY become exactly like them.
* ''[[The Omen]]'' began with an swap between a dead baby and a mysterious newborn.
* ''[[The Omen]]'' began with an swap between a dead baby and a mysterious newborn.
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** This is pretty bizarre, and seems to relate to the belief that nature always trumps nurture, as seen mostly on cop shows.
** This is pretty bizarre, and seems to relate to the belief that nature always trumps nurture, as seen mostly on cop shows.
* The [[Eric Idle]]-[[Rick Moranis]] vehicle [[Splitting Heirs]] was a pretty straightforward take on this.
* The [[Eric Idle]]-[[Rick Moranis]] vehicle [[Splitting Heirs]] was a pretty straightforward take on this.
* ''[[Big Business]]'' (Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin) [[Separated at Birth|separates two pair of identical twins]] at birth by swapping one from each pair, invoking both this trope and [[Separated at Birth]], along with [[The City vs. the Country|City Mouse and Country Mouse]]-style differences between the families to produce a modern-era ''[[The Comedy of Errors|Comedy of Errors]]''.
* The aptly titled 1991 TV movie ''Switched at Birth'' (no relation to the TV series) is based on the true story of Kimberly Mays and Arlena Twigg.
* The aptly titled 1991 TV movie ''Switched at Birth'' (no relation to the TV series) is based on the true story of Kimberly Mays and Arlena Twigg.


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