Accepting the challenge of taking the lifestyle of Billy Ray, a bigger who has nothing other than a girlfriend, Louis Winthrop, a successful manager from a wealthy family that enjoys with all the pleasures of life, struggles against living as a poor man who cannot earn his living, but he receives help from his girlfriend.
8 April 1915, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
17 May 1948, Detroit, Michigan, USA
16 October 1952, Galveston, Texas, USA
17 June 1956, Santa Monica, California, USA
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17 June 1904, Chicago, Illinois, USA
17 July 1936, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
16 June 1934, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
5 March 1945, New York, USA
14 March 1955, Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA
2 July 1947, Alameda, California, USA
24 March 1947, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
28 May 1938
3 February 1910, Senatobia, Mississippi, USA
4 December 1936, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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14 December 1947, Buffalo, New York, USA
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29 April 1913, New York City, New York, USA
14 February 1955, Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 03, 2013
This blatant, unacknowledged reworking of The Prince and the Pauper is a rattling comedy showcase for the unique talents of Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, who have seldom recaptured the form they show here.April 02, 2008
This 1983 film re-creates a screwball comedy format and then eliminates everything but the crudest audience-gratification elements; any incursions into the more morally complicated side of the genre are quickly curtailed.April 02, 2008
Trading Places is a light romp geared up by the schtick shifted by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.November 23, 2015
Trading Places is a comedy of unavoidable fits and starts.June 24, 2006
As a satire on the internecine savagery of fiscal doings under late Reaganite capitalism, the movie is not as biting as it thinks it is; but it's still the best hoot since Arthur.August 03, 2013
It's all outrageously contrived, and only surprising restraint by director John Landis makes it work. The writing is superb, too, leaving the two funnymen free to do the most inspired textured portrayals either has managed in movies.January 01, 2011
Edgy, bawdy '80s comedy not meant for kids.August 03, 2013
Directed by John Landis with a surprising amount of class, though he lets some of his old Animal House' vulgarity slip ostentatiously into the action.August 03, 2013
While the two-hour running time overstretches the material, there are plenty of laughs -- as well as sly digs at the racism and greed of the American establishment.December 06, 2010
...a fun-filled film all the way around.April 02, 2008
Trading Places also makes Eddie Murphy a force to be reckoned with.October 23, 2004
What's most visible in the movie is the engaging acting. Murphy and Aykroyd are perfect foils for each other.