Trading Places (1983)

Director: John Landis  Starring: Dan Aykroyd  Eddie Murphy  
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Product Summary
Publisher: Paramount Home Video
Format: N/A
UPC: 00097360155143
Buy.com Sku: 204854494
Item#: RJLUTY
Category Keywords: Big Business  Buddies  Essential Cinema  Rags To Riches  Recommended  Scams And Cons  Switching Roles  Theatrical Release  Vengeance 
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Editor's Note

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.


Plot Summary

As the result of a bet between two wealthy commodities traders, the lifestyles of a street hustler (Eddie Murphy) and a blue-nosed employee (Dan Akroyd) of the brokerage are reversed. The innocent victims of the bet scramble to make it in their new foreign environments, with hysterical results. Once they discover the switch played on them, they set out to exact their comic revenge on the execs, played by the grand old actors Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche..

 
Features
Region 1
Keep Case
Letterbox - 1.85
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital Mono - French
Interactive Features:
Scene Selection
Interactive Menus



 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: Paramount Home Video
Release Date: 6/18/2007
Running Time: 118 minutes
Original Release Date: 1983
Catalog ID: 015514
UPC: 00097360155143
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed
Available Subtitles: English
Video: Color

 
Cast & Crew
Jamie Lee Curtis
Denholm Elliott
Ralph Bellamy
Dan Aykroyd
Paul Gleason
Eddie Murphy
Don Ameche
John Landis - Director

 
Professional Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
"...Murphy makes a slick segue from hustler to Wall Street wizard..." -- Rating: B 10/22/1999 pp.92-3

New York Times
"...Consummately slick entertainment....[Aykroyd and Murphy] work together deftly..." 06/08/1983 p.C16

Variety
"...Landis knows well the strength of his performers and unleashes them for delightful individual moments and wacky interaction..." 06/01/1983

Uncut
4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's still funny and sharp-witted..." 08/01/2007 p.138

Ultimate DVD
4 stars out of 5 -- "Expect intelligent comedy for the 'greed is good' generation, directed by John Landis at the height of his powers" 08/01/2007 p.85

  
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