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Trading Places (1983)

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Reviews Counted: 34

Fresh: 31

Rotten:3

Average Rating: 7.3/10

Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: In this screwball comedy of manners, millionaire commodity brokers Randolph and Mortimer Duke (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) wager a bet that pits environment vs. biology and turns the lives of their two unsuspecting victims upside... In this screwball comedy of manners, millionaire commodity brokers Randolph and Mortimer Duke (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) wager a bet that pits environment vs. biology and turns the lives of their two unsuspecting victims upside down. Eddie Murphy costars as Billy Ray Valentine, a streetwise hustler who gets dragged off the street and into the proper life of top Duke Bros. broker Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd), who in turn gets tossed out of his posh townhouse and onto the mean city streets. The comic team of Murphy and Aykroyd is deliriously funny as they both struggle to comprehend their new lives. Billy Ray is forced to learn proper etiquette, manners, and business sense while uptight Louis scrambles to make it on the streets, befriending a prostitute (Jamie Lee Curtis) who takes him in and saves him from starvation--or worse. When the two innocent victims realize the scheming brothers' plot, they unite and devise a fabulous revenge to prove that their lives can't be controlled by the power-grubbing Duke brothers. The film features outstanding work by Denholm Elliott as the butler and Curtis as the prostitute with a heart of gold. Curtis especially shines in the scene in which she removes all of her hustler accoutrements to reveal her true looks. [More]

Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche

Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Jamie Lee Curtis, Denholm Elliott, Paul Gleason

Director: John Landis

Director: John Landis

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Sep 24, 2002

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
  • Dolby Digital Mono - French

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Fast-paced and energetic social satire fleshed out with lots of enjoyable silliness.

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04/02/08
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The Saturday Night Live veterans Murphy and Ackroyd are the show-stealers here in this decent family comedy.

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04/02/08
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Trading Places also makes Eddie Murphy a force to be reckoned with.

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04/02/08
Richard Schickel
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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.

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04/02/08
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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The rise of Valentine and the fall of Winthorpe are a source of great fun.

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04/02/08
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Trading Places is a light romp geared up by the schtick shifted by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.

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04/02/08
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10/03/07
Cole Smithey
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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.

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06/24/06
Time Out
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Eddie Murphy stars in one of his greatest roles.

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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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Because Eddie doesn't have to carry the whole movie, he is free to make every word that comes out of his mouth infinitely appealing.

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12/06/05
Brad Laidman
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10/09/05
Chuck O'Leary
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Hilarious chemistry between Aykroyd and Murphy.

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09/21/05
Bill Clark
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08/02/05
Emanuel Levy
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great fun

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02/26/05
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
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What's most visible in the movie is the engaging acting. Murphy and Aykroyd are perfect foils for each other.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
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[A] shrewd but very likable movie.

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08/30/04
Janet Maslin
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Enjoyable star comedy with pleasant performances.

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07/19/04
Ken Hanke
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06/08/04
Sarah Chauncey
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Funny and clever, even though its celebration of 80s-era greed has aged poorly.

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04/23/04
Rob Vaux
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03/30/04
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