Trading Places

Trading Places

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Trading Places

Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott

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  read more... )mpoverished street hustler Billy Ray Valentine to be placed in the lap of luxury. Simultaneously, they strip wealthy Louis Winthorpe III of his identity and wealth. When Billy Ray figures out that the brothers intend send him back to his life of poverty once their experiment is complete, he seeks out Winthorpe, and together they plot their revenge on the Duke brothers.

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  • September 22, 2009
    John 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!
  • September 13, 2009
    Not unpleasant comedy
  • June 17, 2008
    One 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) best comedies during this period. A classic.
  • May 25, 2008
    Louis (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.
  • March 2, 2008
    Eddie Murphy trying to find himself as a comedic actor.
  • December 5, 2009
    Who doesnt love this movie!!!
  • November 18, 2009
    A decent comedy from the 80's. Stars Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd. Basically about a wealthy business man who exchanges his life with a homeless man. This of course is a plot by two other business men to take the millions this man owns. Not a bad comedy. There are funny moments i...( read more)n it. Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy were a good comedy team in this. I got a few laughs. Worth at least a one time watch.
  • November 15, 2009
    I didn't get into this one as much as other early Eddie Murphys or Akroids. Still Eddie played a funny ass homeless guy... and Akroid played a pretty good helpless ex-wealthy investor
  • November 5, 2009
    This is a movie thats still great today
  • October 24, 2009
    Superb 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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