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In this crowd-pleasing 1983 comedy of high finance about a homeless con artist who becomes a Wall Street robber baron, Eddie Murphy consolidated the success of his startling debut in the previous year's 48 Hours and polished his slick-winner persona. The turnabout begins with an argument between super-rich siblings, played by Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche: Are captains of industry, they wonder, born or made? To settle the issue, the meanies construct a cruel experiment in social Darwinism. Preppie commodities trader Dan Aykroyd (perfectly cast) is stripped of all his worldly goods and expelled from the firm, and Murphy's smelly derelict is appointed to take his place, graduating to tailored suits and a world-class harem in record time. Eventually the two men team up to teach the nasty old manipulators a lesson, cornering the market in frozen orange juice futures in the process. Director John Landis (The Blues Brothers) doesn't have the world's lightest touch, but he hits most of the jokes hard and quite a few of them pay off. Trading Places is also a landmark film for fans of Jamie Lee Curtis. --David Chute
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | John Landis |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 08 June, 1983 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Paramount |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Adult Humor, Adult Language, Adult Situations, Class Differences, Color, Comedies, Comedy, Comedy Video, Comedy of Manners, Cons and Scams, Culture Clash, Cynical, Down on Their Luck, English, Feature, Feature Film Comedy, Feature Film-comedy, Fish Out of Water, High Budget, High Production Values |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | D015514D |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 097360155143 |
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Customer Reviews of Trading Places
ONE OF THE BEST EVER This is probably one of the funniest films of the 1980's. It not only is a play on the classic nature vs. nurture theme, but it is also a somewhat comedic commentary on the "greed is good" decade of the 80's. However, it is also a nice bridging of the generations as it features two of the biggest stars to come from "Saturday Night Live" Eddie Murphy does a fine job as con man Billy Ray and Dan Ackroyd is great as Louis. Jamie Lee Curtis is also wonderful as Ophelia. In fact, it was good to see her do something other than the "scream queen" roles which she became famous for during the early part of her career. She definitely shows the comedic timing that she would display later in her career and would make her one of the finest comedic actresses in film today. However, the one that really steals it for me is Denholm Elliot as Coleman. He delivers a very low key performance that is befitting for that role. This is a real gem.
Must own!
Looks fantastic on HD DVD, held up extremely well on 80" screen. The Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 is front heavy, but otherwise sounds great. Classic comedy at its finest.
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>It is good fun and on many levels.
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>I recommend this movie to one and all.