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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

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Trading Places is one of those classics that you can watch every other year or so. The story is by no means new (rich boy/poor boy situation-swop scenario) but it comes together very nicely in John Landis' film. It is pretty much the Eddie Murphy Show, and remains to this day the actor's best all-round performance. Trading Places is also one of John Landis' artistically more successful movies along with Blues Brothers (a film which was partially ruined by butcher-shop editing), and indeed the two are from... more info

Loosing it all over a bet! Gaining it back....smarter yet!:

Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd make this one of my all-time favorite movies.

In this movie, two bored, yet rich older gentlemen (Randolph Duke and Mortimer Duke) make a silly bet and ruin the life of the man who runs their company. They bet that anyone could run their company if put in a great environment.

The seek out Billy Ray Valentine (Murphy) who definately did not grow up in a good environment, to take their employee Louis Winthorpe III's (Aykroyd) place as head of the company.

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You ever wonder what the others live like? Well you'll see when a rich white man and a poor black man switch lives based on a one dollar bet. Classic movie!

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