Title

Trading Places

Year

1983

Rated

R

Released

08 Jun 1983

Runtime

116 min

Genre

Comedy

Director

John Landis

Writer

Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod

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.

Language

English

Country

USA

Awards

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

Metascore

69

imdbRating

7.5

imdbVotes

112,639

imdbID

tt0086465

Type

movie

DVD

24 Sep 2002

BoxOffice

N/A

Production

Paramount Pictures

Website

N/A