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Format: DVD

Sep 2002

Rated R

Recording Mode: (unknown)

Sound: Stereo

116 min.

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UPC: 097360155143
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Trading Places (DVD, 2002) Other Editions...
Leading Role: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy
Director: John Landis

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About this Movie
Movie Description
In this screwball comedy of manners, millionaire commodity brokers Randolph and Mortimer Duke (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) wager a bet that pits environment vs. biology and turns the lives of their two unsuspecting victims upside down. Eddie Murphy costars as Billy Ray Valentine, a streetwise hustler who gets dragged off the street and into the proper life of top Duke Bros. broker Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd), who in turn gets tossed out of his posh townhouse and onto the mean city streets. The comic team of Murphy and Aykroyd is deliriously funny as they both struggle to comprehend their new lives. Billy Ray is forced to learn proper etiquette, manners, and business sense while uptight Louis scrambles to make it on the streets, befriending a prostitute (Jamie Lee Curtis) who takes him in and saves him from starvation--or worse. When the two innocent victims realize the scheming brothers' plot, they unite and devise a fabulous revenge to prove that their lives can't be controlled by the power-grubbing Duke brothers. The film features outstanding work by Denholm Elliott as the butler and Curtis as the prostitute with a heart of gold. Curtis especially shines in the scene in which she removes all of her hustler accoutrements to reveal her true looks.

Credits
Cast:Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy
Director:John Landis

Synopsis
As the result of a bet between two wealthy commodities traders, the lifestyles of a street hustler (Eddie Murphy) and a blue-nosed employee (Dan Akroyd) of the brokerage are reversed. The innocent victims of the bet scramble to make it in their new foreign environments, with hysterical results. Once they discover the switch played on them, they set out to exact their comic revenge on the execs, played by the grand old actors Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche..

Film Notes
DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
Dolby Digital Mono - French
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection

Director's (Landis's) trademark, SYNW, is a direct reference to "See You Next Wednesday", a line from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Landis has referred to the trademark as a title of a film that he dreamed up when he was 15. SYNW appears in many of his films. It can be seen on a poster in Ophelia's apartment in TRADING PLACES.

"Is there a problem, officers?"--Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy)

"Hey! This is all right! When I was a kid, we wanted bubbles, we had to fart in the tub."--Billy Ray

"It seems to me that the best way to hurt rich people is by making them poor."--Billy Ray

Industry Reviews
"...Murphy makes a slick segue from hustler to Wall Street wizard..." -- Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly - pp.92-3 - Michael Sauter

"...Consummately slick entertainment....[Aykroyd and Murphy] work together deftly..."
New York Times - p.C16 - Janet Maslin

"...Landis knows well the strength of his performers and unleashes them for delightful individual moments and wacky interaction..."
Variety - Har.

4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's still funny and sharp-witted..."
Uncut - Adam Sweeting (08/01/2007)

4 stars out of 5 -- "Expect intelligent comedy for the 'greed is good' generation, directed by John Landis at the height of his powers"
Ultimate DVD - Richard Houldsworth (08/01/2007)


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