Trading Places

About Trading Places

A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

Trading Places is a 1983 comedy film directed by John Landis. Dan Aykroyd takes the lead as Louis Winthorpe III, Eddie Murphy as Billy Ray Valentine, Ralph Bellamy as Randolph Duke, and Don Ameche as Mortimer Duke.

It runs 116 minutes and was released in June 1983. Written by Herschel Weingrod and Timothy Harris. It was produced by Cinema Group Ventures.

Shelv files it under exhilarated, new year's eve, christmas eve, and fish out of water. American members can watch it on YouTube TV. It scores 7.2 out of 10 from 3,842 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

Tangerine, Coming to America, and Die Hard make useful companions to Trading Places, all filed under absurd, amused, and christmas.