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Trading Places
Duke Brothers is rich and greedy makes a decision to wager a bet for born loser Valentine who could become as successful as the priggish Winthorpe. He has enough money to make that circumstance happen, however, Valentine teams up with Winthorpe to change what Winthorpe wants.
30 December 1928, McComb, Mississippi, USA
8 April 1915, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
26 April 1958, Copenhagen, Denmark
17 June 1956, Santa Monica, California, USA
15 January 1946, Talladega, Alabama, USA
1 September 1956, San Jose, California, USA
5 April 1929, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
16 October 1952, Galveston, Texas, USA
4 December 1936, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
12 August 1927
August 03, 2013
While the two-hour running time overstretches the material, there are plenty of laughs -- as well as sly digs at the racism and greed of the American establishment.
August 03, 2013
It's all outrageously contrived, and only surprising restraint by director John Landis makes it work. The writing is superb, too, leaving the two funnymen free to do the most inspired textured portrayals either has managed in movies.
June 24, 2006
As a satire on the internecine savagery of fiscal doings under late Reaganite capitalism, the movie is not as biting as it thinks it is; but it's still the best hoot since Arthur.
December 06, 2010
...a fun-filled film all the way around.
August 03, 2013
This blatant, unacknowledged reworking of The Prince and the Pauper is a rattling comedy showcase for the unique talents of Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, who have seldom recaptured the form they show here.
January 01, 2011
Edgy, bawdy '80s comedy not meant for kids.
April 02, 2008
Trading Places also makes Eddie Murphy a force to be reckoned with.
August 03, 2013
Directed by John Landis with a surprising amount of class, though he lets some of his old Animal House' vulgarity slip ostentatiously into the action.
October 23, 2004
What's most visible in the movie is the engaging acting. Murphy and Aykroyd are perfect foils for each other.
April 02, 2008
This 1983 film re-creates a screwball comedy format and then eliminates everything but the crudest audience-gratification elements; any incursions into the more morally complicated side of the genre are quickly curtailed.
November 23, 2015
Trading Places is a comedy of unavoidable fits and starts.
April 02, 2008
Trading Places is a light romp geared up by the schtick shifted by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.