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Trading Places (1983)
7.4
Ratings: 7.4/10 from 48,602 users
Metascore:
66/100
Reviews: 125 user | 54 critic | 9 from Metacritic.com A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires. Director:John Landis |
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Denholm Elliott | ... | |
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Maurice Woods | ... | |
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Richard D. Fisher Jr. | ... | |
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Jim Gallagher | ... | |
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Anthony DiSabatino | ... | |
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Bonnie Behrend | ... | |
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Sunnie Merrill | ... | |
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James Newell | ... |
Duke & Duke Employee
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Mary St. John | ... | |
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Bonnie Tremena | ... | |
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David Schwartz | ... | |
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Ralph Bellamy | ... | |
| Don Ameche | ... | ||
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Tom Degidon | ... | |
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Storyline
Louis Winthorpe is a businessman who works for commodities brokerage firm of Duke and Duke owned by the brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke. Now they bicker over the most trivial of matters and what they are bickering about is whether it's a person's environment or heredity that determines how well they will do in life. When Winthorpe bumps into Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler and assumes he is trying to rob him, he has him arrested. Upon seeing how different the two men are, the brothers decide to make a wager as to what would happen if Winthorpe loses his job, his home and is shunned by everyone he knows and if Valentine was given Winthorpe's job. So they proceed to have Winthorpe arrested and to be placed in a compromising position in front of his girlfriend. So all he has to rely on is the hooker who was hired to ruin him. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com
Plot Summary | Plot SynopsisTaglines:
Take two complete strangers, make one of them rich the other poor... just watch the fun while they're... TRADING PLACES See more »Genres:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
(USA) See more »Also Known As:
De mendigo a millonario See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$7,348,200 (USA) (12 June 1983)Gross:
$90,404,800 (USA)Company Credits
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1.85 : 1
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Coleman: [holding a breakfast tray while Louis is still asleep] Your breakfast, sir.
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clips from the film. The clips showing Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy and
Jamie-Lee Curtis respectively are obvious outtakes as they all crack up and
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Don Ameche's strong religious convictions made him uncomfortable with swearing. This proved a problem for the scene at the end of the movie where he had to shout out "Fuck him!" to a group of Wall Street executives. When he did act out the scene, it had to be done in one take because Ameche refused to do a second one. See more »Goofs
Factual errors: Among the portraits on the walls in the Heritage Club is a painting of J.P. Morgan, a highly significant financier in the early 20th century. If these portraits are meant to be of founding members of the club, Morgan is out of place; he spent his youth in Connecticut, and most of his adult life in New York. He never lived in Philadelphia, making his membership in the Heritage highly unlikely. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Coleman: [holding a breakfast tray while Louis is still asleep] Your breakfast, sir.
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The names of the major actors/actresses are shown superimposed on shortclips from the film. The clips showing Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy and
Jamie-Lee Curtis respectively are obvious outtakes as they all crack up and
burst into smiles and/or laughter. See more »
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