Trading Places
Duke Brothers is rich and greedy makes a decision to wager a bet for born loser Valentine who could become as successful as the priggish Winthorpe. He has enough money to make that circumstance happen, however, Valentine teams up with Winthorpe to change what Winthorpe wants.
3 April 1961, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
18 October 1928, Anderson, South Carolina, USA
13 August 1952, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
11 September 1914, Fresno, California, USA
14 October 1955, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
25 May 1944, Hereford, England, UK
24 March 1947, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
April1957, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
14 December 1947, Buffalo, New York, USA
15 June 1954, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1 July 1952, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
17 June 1956, Santa Monica, California, USA
30 July 1954, New York City, New York, USA
3 August 1950, Chicago, Illinois, USA
8 March 1913
2 January 1956, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
1 September 1956, San Jose, California, USA
August 03, 2013
Directed by John Landis with a surprising amount of class, though he lets some of his old Animal House' vulgarity slip ostentatiously into the action.
April 02, 2008
Trading Places also makes Eddie Murphy a force to be reckoned with.
October 23, 2004
What's most visible in the movie is the engaging acting. Murphy and Aykroyd are perfect foils for each other.
August 03, 2013
It's all outrageously contrived, and only surprising restraint by director John Landis makes it work. The writing is superb, too, leaving the two funnymen free to do the most inspired textured portrayals either has managed in movies.
August 03, 2013
This blatant, unacknowledged reworking of The Prince and the Pauper is a rattling comedy showcase for the unique talents of Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, who have seldom recaptured the form they show here.
November 23, 2015
Trading Places is a comedy of unavoidable fits and starts.
April 02, 2008
This 1983 film re-creates a screwball comedy format and then eliminates everything but the crudest audience-gratification elements; any incursions into the more morally complicated side of the genre are quickly curtailed.
August 03, 2013
While the two-hour running time overstretches the material, there are plenty of laughs -- as well as sly digs at the racism and greed of the American establishment.
December 06, 2010
...a fun-filled film all the way around.
June 24, 2006
As a satire on the internecine savagery of fiscal doings under late Reaganite capitalism, the movie is not as biting as it thinks it is; but it's still the best hoot since Arthur.
January 01, 2011
Edgy, bawdy '80s comedy not meant for kids.
April 02, 2008
Trading Places is a light romp geared up by the schtick shifted by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.
