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Trading Places

1983

John Landis

Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, James Belushi ...

6.3

10,635

Comedy As the result of a bet between two wealthy commodities traders, the lifestyles of a street hustler (Eddie Murphy) and a blue-nosed employee (Dan Akroyd) of the brokerage are reversed. The innocent victims of the bet scramble to make it in their new foreign environments, with hysterical results. Once they discover the switch played on them, they set out to exact their comic revenge on the execs, played by the grand old actors Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche.. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It depends less on plot than on character, and the characters in 'Trading Places' are wonderful comic inventions (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"In a perfect world, 'Places' would qualify as little more than a solid comedy, but standards have fallen so low that it's largely regarded as a classic, a billing it doesn't quite warrant."	NEU
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Shrewd but very likable (...) [It] may not be fresh, but it certainly is funny (...) [Aykroyd and Murphy] work together deftly"	POS
United States	Gary Arnold The Washington Post	"Screenwriters Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod fail to contrive an acceptably updated setting for the comedy of social contrasts that flourished in Hollywood throughout the '30s."	NEG
United States	Variety	"Aykroyd and Murphy are in top form (...) The only cost, however, is a mid-section stretch without laughs, still made enjoyable by the presence of Jamie Lee Curtis"	POS

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