TRADING PLACES (1983 - R)

Commodity brokers Duke & Duke wager a bet that drastically affects two men’s lives.  In order to help get homeless con artist Billy Ray back on his feet the Dukes offer him a home, a full time job, a car, and all the toppings of a comfortable upper class lifestyle.  In exchange, Billy Ray’s adversary, the pretentious upper class snob Louis Winthorpe is uprooted and transplanted into the ghetto: forced to survive off of instincts and the help of a sassy prostitute.  But when both men discover the truth to the Duke’s conniving scheme they decide to team up and undermine the frivolous commodity brokers once and for all.

The cast includes: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Don Ameche, Ralph Bellamy, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Denholm Elliot.

Written by: Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod. Directed by: John Landis.

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Genre: Comedy