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DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 24, 2002
• R2: 2 Dec 2002
Running Time
1 hour, 58 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Cinema Group Ventures, Paramount Pictures
Studio Paramount
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Other Titles
• Trading Places (1983)
• Black or White
• Die Glücksritter (1983)
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Genre: Comedy, Revenge, Buddies, Role-switching, Scams And Cons, Prostitution, Christmas, Cult Classic, Drugs, Suspense, Satire
Tagline: They're not just getting rich... They're getting even.
Plot: 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.
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John Landis
The Blues Brothers, Animal House, Coming to America |
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| Cast |
Dan Aykroyd
The Blues Brothers, Pearl Harbor, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom |
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 | Paul Gleason
Die Hard, The Breakfast Club, Not Another Teen Movie |
 | Frank Oz
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace |
 | James Belushi
Little Shop of Horrors, Jingle All the Way, Red Heat |
 | Al Franken
The Manchurian Candidate, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, The Rutles |
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