Fresh
Trading Places also makes Eddie Murphy a force to be reckoned with.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Trading Places
They're not just getting rich... They're getting even.
1983 · 1h 56m · R
Comedy
Directed by
John Landis
Overview
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Director and cast
- John Landis Director
- Dan Aykroyd as Louis Winthorpe III
- Eddie Murphy as Billy Ray Valentine
- Ralph Bellamy as Randolph Duke
- Don Ameche as Mortimer Duke
- Denholm Elliott as Coleman
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Ophelia
- Paul Gleason as Clarence Beeks
- Frank Oz as Corrupt Cop
- Jim Belushi as Harvey
- Kristin Holby as Penelope Witherspoon
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Rotten
This 1983 film re-creates a screwball comedy format and then eliminates everything but the crudest audience-gratification elements; any incursions into the more morally complicated side of the genre are quickly curtailed.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Trading Places is a light romp geared up by the schtick shifted by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
As a satire on the internecine savagery of fiscal doings under late Reaganite capitalism, the movie is not as biting as it thinks it is; but it's still the best hoot since Arthur.
Chris Peachment, Time Out
Fresh
What's most visible in the movie is the engaging acting. Murphy and Aykroyd are perfect foils for each other.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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