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Box office. $120.6 million. 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 ...
- June 8, 1983
- Aaron Russo
Jun 8, 1983 · Trading Places: Directed by John Landis. With Denholm Elliott, Dan Aykroyd, Maurice Woods, Richard D. Fisher Jr.. A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
- John Landis
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Jul 12, 2013 · Standing on the floor of the exchange, Winthorpe (Dan Aykroyd) yells out: Sell 30 April at 142! Here's what that means: He wants to promise to sell orange juice in April for $1.42 per pound.
2 days ago · Trading Places is a comedy film about a wealthy broker and a street hustler who switch lives as part of an elaborate bet. The cast of the movie includes a mix of iconic actors. The most popular cast member today is Dan Aykroyd, Louis Winthorpe III.
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- It’s a new take on an old story. The main focus of Trading Places is the switching of social positions between a vagrant and an upper-class commodities broker.
- It won two BAFTAs. Jamie Lee Curtis wasn’t exaggerating when she said being cast in Trading Places changed her life, as it saw her awarded her first major accolade.
- It was one of the biggest box office hits of 1983. Paramount’s fears that a comedy headlined by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy wouldn’t fare well at the box office proved to be unfounded.
- The film has become perennial Christmas viewing in Italy. Trading Places can often be found listed alongside the likes of Die Hard and Gremlins, two other 80s films which prompt seemingly endless debate about whether or not they’re actually Christmas movies.
Summaries. A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires. 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 ...
