Trading Places

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Cast

Dan Aykroyd
as Louis Winthorpe III

Eddie Murphy
as Billy Ray Valentine

Ralph Bellamy
as Randolph Duke

Don Ameche
as Mortimer Duke

Jamie Lee Curtis
as Ophelia

Denholm Elliott
as Coleman

Paul Gleason
as Beeks, Clarence Beeks

Kristin Holby
as Penelope Witherspoon, Penelope

Alfred Drake
as President of Exchange

Bo Diddley
as Pawnbroker

Frank Oz
as Corrupt Cop

Jim Belushi
as Harvey

Al Franken
as Baggage Handler #1, Baggage Handler No. 1

Tom Davis
as Baggage Handler No. 2, Baggage Handler #2

Jim Gallagher
as D&D Employee, Duke & Duke Employee #3

Bonnie Behrend
as D&D Employee, Duke & Duke Employee #5

Jim Newell
as D&D Employee, Duke & Duke Employee #7

Richard D. Fisher Jr.
as D&D Employee, Duke & Duke Employee #2

Anthony DiSabantino
as D&D Employee, Duke & Duke Employee #4

Sunnie Merrill
as Duke & Duke Employee #6, D&D Employee

Mary St. John
as D&D Employee, Duke & Duke Employee #8

David Schwartz
as D&D Employee, Duke & Duke Employee #10

Maurice Woods
as D&D Employee, Duke & Duke Employee #1

Bonnie Tremenal
as D&D Employee, Duke & Duke Employee #9

Tom Degidon
as Duke Domestic, Duke Domestic #1

Alan Dellay
as Duke Domestic, Duke Domestic #3

Ray D'Amore
as Duke Domestic, Duke Domestic #5

Herb Peterson
as Duke Domestic #7, Duke Domestic

Walt Gorney
as Duke Domestic, Duke Domestic #9

William Magerman
as Duke Domestic, Duke Domestic #2

Florence Anglin
as Duke Domestic, Duke Domestic #4

Bobra Suiter
as Duke Domestic, Duke Domestic #6

Sue Dugan
as Duke Domestic, Duke Domestic #8

B. Constance Barry
as Duke Domestic #10, Duke Domestic

P. Jay Sidney
as Heritage Club Doorman

Avon Long
as Ezra

Tom Mardirosian
as Officer Pantuzzi

Charles D. Brown
as Officer Reynolds, Off. Reynolds

Robert Curtis Brown
as Todd

Nicholas Guest
as Harry

John Bedford Lloyd
as Andrew

Tony Sherer
as Philip

Robert Earl Jones
as Attendant

Robert E. Lee
as Cop, Cop #1

Eddie Jones
as Cop, Cop #3

John McCurry
as Cop, Cop #4

Peter Hock
as Cop #2, Cop

Clint Smith
as Doo Rag Lenny

Ron Taylor
as Big Black Guy

James D. Turner
as Even Bigger Black Guy

Giancarlo Esposito
as Cellmate, Cellmate #2

Steve Hofvendahl
as Cellmate, Cellmate #3

James Eckhouse
as Guard

Gwyllum Evans
as President of Heritage Club

Michele Mais
as Hooker, Hooker #1

Barra Kahn
as Hooker, Hooker #2

Bill Cobbs
as Bartender

Joshua Daniels
as Party Goer

Jacques Sandulescu
as Creepy Man

W.B. Brydon
as Bank Manager

Margaret H. Flynn
as D&D Receptionist, Duke & Duke Receptionist

Kelly Curtis
as Muffy

Tracy K. Shaffer
as Constance

Susan Fallender
as Bunny

Lucianne Buchanan
as President's Mistress

Paul Garcia
as Jr. Executive #1, Junior Executive

Jed Gillin
as Junior Executive, Jr. Executive #2

Jimmy Raitt
as Ophelia's Client

Kate Taylor
as Duke's Secretary

Philip Bosco
as Doctor

Bill Boggs
as Newscaster

Deborah Reagan
as Harvey's Girl Friend, Harvey's Girlfriend

Don McLeod
as Gorilla

Stephen Stucker
as Station Master, Stationmaster

Richard Hunt
as Wilson

Paul Austin
as Trader, Trader #1

John Randolph Jones
as Trader, Trader #2

Jack Davidson
as Trader

Bernie McInerney
as Trader, Trader #4

Maurice Copeland
as Secretary of Agriculture

Ralph Clanton
as Official, Official #1

Bryan Clark
as Official #2, Official

Gary Howard Klar
as Longshoreman, Longshoreman #1

Afemo Omilami
as Longshoreman, Longshoreman #2

Shelly Chee Chee Hall
as Monica

Donna Palmer
as Gladys

Barry Dennen
as Demitri

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Audience Reviews for Trading Places

• Sep 21, 2018

  The Book of Job meets Pygmalion in this intelligent comedy that benefits from great performances (especially by Eddie Murphy), and, no matter how utterly implausible everything we see here is, at least it sells us the whole thing with enough conviction to make it a blast.
  Carlos M Super Reviewer
• Jun 13, 2015

  I am not sure why it took me so long to see this. Two comedy geniuses at the top of the game. It makes sense seeing as they are hardly ever seen in movies today.
  

  Ian W Super Reviewer
• Jan 28, 2014

  Trading Places is certainly a goofy and over the top comedy, but one that remains funny more than 30 years later. Eddie Murphy excels at these eccentric roles, and the script is meant to be unrealistic but entertaining nonetheless. Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd) is a well off day trader, but you can see his life isn't that realistic or genuine. Those around him, even his fiancee, seem to be simply a thinly veiled layer of relationships surrounding him. We also meet Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) who is a homeless man pandering for money while pretending to have various physical impairments to collect more money. The film's story revolves around Winthorpe's bosses, two elderly brothers who are just as rich as they are in lacking morals or compassion, who make a one dollar bet on the nature of heredity vs. environment with Winthorpe and Valentine swapping roles to test this theory. As we see Valentine move up in the world we see Winthorpe basically be kicked out on the street with nothing he once had and this causes him to go mad. Valentine eventually befriends Winthorpe as the two find out about the plot by the brothers and choose to beat them at their own game. Trading Places is lighthearted and eccentric in its humor and dances on the absurd at times. Still, this is a funny and entertaining comedy that still remains so today.
  

  Chris B Super Reviewer
• Feb 06, 2013

  I appreciate the film trying to portray something that almost an universal theme And that is what would happen if a privileged/rich person and an impoverished person traded places and seeing how they would each do in a different world and what they would do to survive. I think this is a very universal theme and the film does have a good amount of social satire. But, somehow or other, the film isn't as funny as it thinks it is. The film doesn't exactly get into the complexities of how each character adjusts to the change in their situation for how much time they actually spend with them adjusting to the change. I just think the movie would've benefited from more scenes of Dan and Eddie together instead of just leaving the majority of their scenes for the last act of the film. Because of that there's long stretches of the film where nothing funny really happens. This mostly happens during the second act, and some of the third act, of the film. I don't know what happens, but the film isn't funny for a good chunk of time. Again, I get what the film was trying to do and it pulled it off well. I think they get two perfect old rich assholes, in Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche, to play the Duke brothers and they help get the story "over" in a way when a lot of the comedy doesn't work. The cast is very good, the film's problems are never due to the cast, just the script. That's not to say the film isn't good because it is. It has plenty of funny moments but it also has plenty of jokes that just fall flat. For example the stuff with the gorilla fell flat...none of those jokes worked, at all. So really, I'd still say this is a good movie with a fun cast but it's definitely a mixed bag as far as the comedy goes.
  Jesse O Super Reviewer

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