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Trading Places

Country: USA, Language: English, 118 mins

  • Director: John Landis
  • Writer: Timothy Harris; Herschel Weingrod
  • Producer: George Folsey Jr.; Aaron Russo

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In its day...it was a huge success. Doubtful if it would be now!


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The(ir) Blurb...

Louis Winthorpe is a businessman who works for commodities brokerage firm of Duke and Duke owned by the brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke. Now they bicker over the most trivial of matters and what they are bickering about is whether it's a person's environment or heredity that determines how well they will do in life. When Winthorpe bumps into Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler and assumes he is trying to rob him, he has him arrested. Upon seeing how different the two men are, the brothers decide to make a wager as to what would happen if Winthorpe loses his job, his home and is shunned by everyone he knows and if Valentine was given Winthorpe's job. So they proceed to have Winthorpe arrested and to be placed in a compromising position in front of his girlfriend. So all he has to rely on is the hooker who was hired to ruin him.

Cast & Characters

Denholm Elliott as Coleman;
Dan Aykroyd as Louis Winthorpe III;
Maurice Woods as Duke & Duke Employee;
Richard D. Fisher Jr. as Duke & Duke Employee;
Jim Gallagher as Duke & Duke Employee;
Anthony DiSabatino as Duke & Duke Employee;
Bonnie Behrend as Duke & Duke Employee;
Sunnie Merrill as Duke & Duke Employee;
James Newell as Duke & Duke Employee;
Mary St. John as Duke & Duke Employee;
Bonnie Tremena as Duke & Duke Employee;
David Schwartz as Duke & Duke Employee;
Ralph Bellamy as Randolph Duke;
Don Ameche as Mortimer Duke;
Tom Degidon as Duke Domestic