Funny movie starring Eddie Murphy as Billy Ray Valentine and Dan Aykroyd as Louis Winthorp III. Winthorp is a commodities broker working for Duke & Duke (Don Ameche and Ralph Belamy), and he is a stuck-up, Ivy-League snot who looks down on every one around him. Valentine is a black, scamming, street person, paracitically living off what he can beg, borrow, or steal. While trying to avoid being busted by cops, he accidentally runs into Winthorp and knocks him down on the sidewalk. Billy Ray picks up Winthorp's brief case to hand it back to him, and like the giant sissy that he is, he screams for the police and swears that Valentine assaulted him and tried to rob him. The police arrest him. The Dukes are two total pieces of sh_t. They enter into a bet that Valentine is trash because of his environment, and that if the roles were reversed between him and Winthorp, that Valentine would be successful and Winthorp would be like Valentine. The bet is one dollar. At their posh club, Winthorp is set up with stolen money and accused of theft. He is arrested and fired. While he is under arrest, the Dukes screw his credit, discredit his name, take away his swanky townhouse and butler, car and chauffeur, and everything else. His girlfriend, a snobby, privileged, little stuck-up bitch, goes to jail to bail Winthorp out. He is now accused of selling PCP also. When she arrives he is dirty and beat up and all of his clothes stolen, he is wearing discards. As soon as he walks out of the building, a prostitute runs up to him and kisses him begging for some drugs. Winthorp's girlfriend is appalled. The prostitute, Jamie Lee Curtis, was paid $100 to give that performance. She really looks the part of a whore - kind of like an ugly man with big tits. (Perhaps she missed her true calling in life) It was supposed to be a joke! He is really screwed. The Dukes bail out Billy Ray, and give him everything that belonged to Winthorp. His job, home, car and driver, butler, lifestyle - Everything! He is soon a total gentleman, and highly successful as a commodities broker (Right!). Winthorp is a street person. Curtis, not knowing exactly what is going on, feels sorry for him. She knows that she was used, somehow to screw him around. This soon becomes evident, and when Billy Ray hears the Dukes laughing about it, he looks Winthorp up and they formulate a plan for payback. The Dukes have bribed an insider for information on the upcoming orange juice crop, so that they can corner the market. Winthorp and Valentine, along with Curtis work out a plan to intercept the courier and switch the information, then go to the commodities exchange and make a killing, and destroy the Dukes. With everything his butler (and friend) could muster, plus all of Curtis' savings, they prepair for battle. They swing the market, suckering-in the Dukes, buying wildly. The Dukes also buy everything they can, driving the price way up. They suddenly sell at a huge profit and the Dukes keep buying loosing everything. ....lessRead full review
TRADING PLACES is One of the Funnies Movie of 1983. When I Was Kid for TRADING PLACES I Used To Watched on VHS Over and Over and Delete Part Was Not in This Movie When It Has Footage Clip of SUNSET BOULEVARD When Paul Gleason STEALS The Files From The Office Draw When He Knock Out The Officer in The Office That Part Was Shown in The Teleacase Means on TV Networks. This is Eddie Murphy's 2nd Film He Did After 48 HRS was Made. Originally They Wanted To Cast Richard Pryor as Billy Ray Valentine But He Was Making SUPERMAN 3 That Year. Also It Has Dan Aryord,Raplh Bellany,Don Ameche,Denholm Elloitt,Jamie Lee Curits and Paul Gleason. This is My 3rd Favorite John Landis Comedy Since he Made ANIMAL HOUSE and BLUES BROTHERS, TRADING PLACES one Of The Best Funnies Movies of 1983. Don't Miss Out Having TRADING PLACES For Your Blu-Ray and DVDs For Your Collection. Read full review
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Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy........Classic. Done at a time when they were both still hilarious, this movie is full of excellent quotables and references that come around in tons of other movies that followed (e.g. Coming to America).
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