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Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod. Starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis, the film tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker (Aykroyd) and a poor street hustler (Murphy) whose lives ...
Jun 8, 1983 · Ralph Bellamy (Randolph) and Don Ameche (Mortimer) make cameo appearances in Coming to America (1988) as the same characters; the two are now homeless, and Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) gives them a large amount of money to get them back off the streets.
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- Comedy
- John Landis
- 1983-06-08
His film career surged in a comeback in the 1980s with fine work as an aging millionaire in Trading Places (1983) and a rejuvenated oldster in Cocoon (1985). Ameche was born Dominic Felix Amici in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to Barbara Edda (Hertel) and Felice Amici, a bartender.
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- Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
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- Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Trading Places. Ralph Bellamy (Randolph) and Don Ameche (Mortimer) make cameo appearances in Coming to America (1988) as the same characters; the two are now homeless, and Prince Akeem ( Eddie Murphy) gives them a large amount of money to get them back off the streets.
Jun 8, 2013 · The film is about two beyond-wealthy yet bored brothers ( Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) who swap out a well-to-do finance guy in their employ ( Dan Aykroyd) with a homeless conman ( Eddie...
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Oct 10, 2020 · Home. Movies. Movie News. Hollywood Flashback: ‘Trading Places’ Spoofed Wealth But Made a Killing in 1983. John Landis' movie Trading Places cemented Eddie Murphy's career and resuscitated...
And, in a masterstroke of casting, those aging veterans Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche are cast as the Duke brothers, incalculably rich men who make little wagers involving human lives. Advertisement. One day a particularly tempting wager occurs to them. Aykroyd has had Murphy arrested for stealing his briefcase.
