Trading Places
Trading Places
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Trading Places (1983)

R (US) | USA | English | 116 min
Directed by: John Landis
8.1

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.

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Awards

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Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical

Nominated

Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score

Nominated

Release Date

Canada
(limited)
1983-06-07
USA
(limited)
1983-06-07
Canada
No data
1983-06-08
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Also Known As (A.K.A.)

Trading Places
(Original title)
De mendigo a millonario
Argentina
Trading Places
Australia
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Parent Guide

Sex & Nudity
Moderate
Violence & Gore
Mild
Profanity
Moderate
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
Moderate
Frightening & Intense Scenes
Mild