Trading Places (1983) movie poster

Trading Places (1983)

"They're not just getting rich... They're getting even."
ThumbScore
👍 86%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 78%
Comedy

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Director
John Landis
Runtime
1h 56m
Rated
R
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.2/10 (3,596 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
87%
Metacritic
69

Cast

Dan Aykroyd as Louis Winthorpe III · 74% avg
Eddie Murphy as Billy Ray Valentine · 73% avg
Ralph Bellamy as Randolph Duke · 80% avg
Don Ameche as Mortimer Duke · 80% avg
Denholm Elliott as Coleman · 79% avg
Jamie Lee Curtis as Ophelia · 73% avg
Paul Gleason as Clarence Beeks · 72% avg
Frank Oz as Corrupt Cop · 78% avg

Is Trading Places good?

Yes. 86% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 78%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#365 / 2672 · Comedy
Rank in its year
#7 / 35 · 1983
Rank among its director's films
#5 / 12 · John Landis

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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

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In Trading Places (1983), Louis Winthorpe’s (Dan Aykroyd) prison number is the same as Jake Blues’ (John Belushi) prison number in The Blues Brothers (also starring Aykroyd, both movies were directed by John Landis) as an homage to Belushi, who had died the year before.
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