Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis
The fabulously wealthy but morally bankrupt Duke brothers make a one-dollar bet over heredity vs. environment. Curious as to what would happen if different lifestyles were reversed, they arrange for i...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 24, 2002
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September 22, 2009John Landis and Eddie Murphy worked really well together. This is an old favourite staring Denholm Elliott, one of my favourite actors, Jamie Lee Curtis, who has a pair of my favourite breasts and is proof that Eddie Murphy was funny once!
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June 17, 2008One of my favorite early comedies I remember seeing in the 80's featuring two untouchable actors from that genre during that period. Add the insatiable Jamie Lee Curtis, Indiana Jones vet Denholm Elliott and old-time actors Ameche and Bellamy and this should go down as one of the...( read more)
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May 25, 2008Louis (Dan Aykroyd) is a wealthy man who has it all, respect, love, money. Billy Ray (Eddie Murphy) is a down and out. As part of a bet, their lifestyles are switched. Good cast.
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October 24, 2009Superb comedy, when Murphy was funny, when JLC was gorgeous, when Ackroyd was thin and Elliot was alive.
Great adult comedy, from a time before the romcom crap cornered the market and resigned this kind of film to almost extinction. -
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October 16, 2009I had forgotten how good this movie was. I watched it again recently (tonight actually) and was laughing out loud.....totally eighties non PC classic but brilliant....just brilliant.
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October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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September 15, 2007there have been a few films with a simular story line with people swaping places betwen parents and kids but this was a top funny/serious story line that just made it work with the two actors playing those parts still sit down and watch time again and still laugh and wish it could happen to me
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