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Summary: Loosing it all over a bet! Gaining it back....smarter yet!
Review: Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd make this one of my all-time favorite movies.In this movie, two bored, yet rich older gentlemen (Randolph Duke and Mortimer Duke) make a silly bet and ruin the life of the man who runs their company. They bet that anyone could run their company if put in a great environment. The seek out Billy Ray Valentine (Murphy) who definately did not grow up in a good environment, to take their employee Louis Winthorpe III's (Aykroyd) place as head of the company. In conducting their experiment/bet, they find that he who laughs last will laugh the loudest. You will also be laughing through this whole movie and you will love the ending. This is a movie about love, loss and redemption. Billy Ray and Louis Winthorpe plot and plan and take back what is theirs. They both show that they can survive, even when someone is simply using them as pawns in a bigger game. One of my all-time favorite movies. For some reason, I can watch this movie over and over and never tire of the acting, plot or themes.
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Summary: All time favorite
Review: This is a classic! We watch it several times a year, naturally for Thanksgiving & Christmas. So many of the lines are classic and it's such fun to see the short apparences by many favorites such as Jim Belushi & Franken & Davis. Jamie Lee Curtis is outstanding, and Aykroyd & Murphy are at their best. We also loved the subtle connection to this movie seen in Murphy's "Coming to America". We've often thought they should make a sequel, but then there is no point, this movie is untouchable. We really look forward to the release of this movie on DVD. We just purchased our 1st DVD player, and wanted this to be our first DVD movie. Two thumbs up.
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Summary: Heredity vs. Environment?
Review: With this film's plot centered around a bet made by two old geezers (Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche), this age-old question is met with some rather unique and strange results. Randolph Duke (Bellamy) makes a $1 bet with his brother Mortimer Duke (Ameche) that environment usually plays a bigger role than heredity in developing a person's personality and character. To achieve this feat, the Dukes' play havoc with the lives of their star-broker employee (Dan Aykroyd) and a socially-disadvantaged street urchin (Eddie Murphy) by switching their personalities. Billy Ray Valentine (Murphy) takes Louis Winthorpe III's (Aykroyd) place and is successfully molded as a wealthy executive, getting Winthorpe's house, car and assets, while Winthorpe is set up by the Dukes' and loses all his worldly possesions and gets arrested for illegal drug posession and winds up on skid-row. Winthorpe then loses his fiance and is paired with a setimental, caring hooker (Jamie Lee Curtis), who eventually takes heed of Winthorpe's plight and lets him move in with her. Valentine then learns of the Dukes' scheme to switch he and Winthorpe back to their respective environments, and Valentine and Winthorpe get set to move in for the kill. They get even by putting the Dukes in the poorhouse, and make a similar $1 bet the Dukes made. This is one movie that has comedy and suspense rolled into one! Buy your copy of "Trading Places" today.
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Summary: Classic Eddie Murphy
Review: One of his best works eddie murphy was a comic genuis in this film aboubt two rich old men place a bet between them on whether or not heriderity or enviroment makes the man by doing so they swicth places with a yuppie(Ackroyd) and a petty street hustler(murphy) and the end results are hillalours. Original and very outlandish Murphy gives one of his best performences.
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Summary: Good Enough for my private collection
Review: Not many movies make it into my private collection, but I just couldn't resist with this one. Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd make an amazing team. I am all for a digital re-make of this great movie. Watch it, rent-it, buy-it, or steal-it. Either way I promise you wont be disappointed.
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Summary: Great CAST, Great MOVIE!
Review: Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd make such a good pair in this movie, you would think they had been together their entire lives! This movie makes you keep laughing all the way through, yet, kinda makes you feel sorry for them. Even if you don't like one of the actors, you'll still love it. Jamie Lee Curtis does a great job as well. Enjoy.
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Summary: Fantastic Concept
Review: John Landis of Second City Television teams up with SNL actors Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd to direct an hilarious comedy about one of the longest running questions which has never been proven. Does Genetics matter over Enviroment? Dan Aykroyd plays a rich snob who works for a company run by his relatives played by Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy. They silently wager that a street hustler played by Murphy could do as good a job as Aykroyd if given the chance.They speculate that Aykroyd if losing everything would resort to desparation and adopt Murphys behavior. Their bet is on and it is secnretly arranged to unknowingly have the two trade places. Their bet seemingly benifits Murphy and destroys Aykroyd at first and it is enjoyable watch to say the least. Then you begin to feel sorry for Aykroyds character. After some jail time Aykroyd meets Jamie Lee Curtis who takes to him right away so he is never really alone. Murphy goes from street hustler to caring too much about cigarettes put out on a carpet that isn't really his. Landis wants you to believe this story on it's face but it's too predictably far fetched. The great comics and actors keep it alive with funny performances but it's initial humor evaporates quickly. The movies only strength is it's raw comedy and it's not always that funny. This idea is so ingenious that it's worh a watch. The end is like a seperate movie. Please note for those concerned that this movie is primarily based in Philadelphia but it's very New York. Haven't we seen this before in Rocky? These cities are as different as LA is from SF!
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Summary: one of eddie murphys best
Review: this movie is awesome. its hilarious and is one of eddie murphys best movies. we can all see why eddie became a huge star after this film.
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Summary: A Very Rewarding Comedy
Review: John Landis has done it again with this very intelligent comedy gem. Eddie Murphy gives a very good comic performance as a down-on-his-luck street hustler who gets the opportunity to "trade places" with Wall Street snoot Dan Aykroyd. Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche both do very well as two greedy, self-centered stock market moguls, who think that just because they have money they can tinker with people's lives. The whole cast does very well with this material. Especially, Jamie Lee Curtis, who delivers a very sexy performance as a hooker with a heart. If you enjoy this movie and would like to see what happened to Bellamy and Ameche's characters later on in life, be sure to check out "Coming To America" which also stars Eddie Murphy and was also directed by Landis.
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Summary: Funny all the way.
Review: Murphy is wonderful in all of his movies, but this is my absolute favorite of his. Same goes for Aykroyd, by the way. Actually, there's not one bad performance in this one. There are way too many hilarious scenes to mention them all here, but some of my faves take place during the train-ride. (-How can one forget Gleason's lovely "poem" when two poor souls enter the compartment at the wrong time ?.) A superb comedy from start to finish.
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