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Trading Places - Metacritic. 1983. R. Paramount Pictures. 1 h 56 m. Summary Billy Ray Valentine (Murphy), a street con man and Louis Winthorpe III, a commodities broker (Aykroyd) agree to trade places after monied Mortimer Duke (Ameche) bets Billy Ray could pull in more money than Louis could on the streets. Comedy. Directed By: John Landis.
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Trading Places, in this of all Hollywood years, is a joy to behold -- clever without being smart, affectionate without being sentimental, They can make movies like they used to after all.
What happens when you combine the comic genius of Eddie Murphy with Dan Aykroyd and director John Landis? You get a timeless comedy classic laced with sidesp...
You get a timeless comedy classic laced with sidesplitting, satiric humor. Murphy stars as a small-time con artist who gets a chance to switch lives with Akroyd's big-time stock market maven. But their reversal of fortunes is just a cruel joke perpetrated by two bored mega-rich brothers (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) as part of an idle bet.
“Trading Places” is a social satire with admirable aims. But the way that it whiffs its landing is emblematic of the deepest problems in the very 1980s culture that it parodies. Annoyingly talented sleazebag of a director John Landis pitched “Places” as an updated version of the Preston Sturges and Frank Capra socially-conscious comedies of the 30s.
Jul 27, 2023 · In Trading Places, millionaires Randolph (Ralph Bellamy) and Mortimer (Don Ameche) Duke can’t agree on the whole nature versus nurture theory. So they decide to bet $1 on it and determine the ...
The irony is, Murphy admitted that he himself didn’t really understand how commodity trading worked at all. 5. It launched the professional partnerships of Murphy/Landis and Aykroyd/Curtis. To date, all the key players of Trading Places have never made another movie together, but members of the team have reunited.
