Trading Places

– A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by t..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.50 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 56 Minutes
Release Year:
1983
Trading Places (1983)

A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

Trading Places (1983) - Trailer

Release Date:

08 Jun 1983

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

John Landis

Writer:

Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod

Main Actors:

Denholm Elliott, Dan Aykroyd, Maurice Woods, Richard D. Fisher Jr.

Plot:

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 bickering about is whether it's a person's environment or heredity that determines how well they will do in life. When Winthorpe bumps into Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler and assumes he is trying to rob him, he has him arrested. Upon seeing how different the two men are, the brothers decide to make a wager as to what would happen if Winthorpe loses his job, his home and is shunned by everyone he knows and if Valentine was given Winthorpe's job. So they proceed to have Winthorpe arrested and to be placed in a compromising position in front of his girlfriend. So all he has to rely on is the hooker who was hired to ruin him.

Awards:

Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations.

Production:

Paramount Pictures

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
Metacritic:
69%