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Paramount Trading Places: Looking Good, Feeling Good Edition (Blu-ray)
The fun begins when the rich and greedy Duke Brothers (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) wager a bet over whether born loser Valentine (Eddie Murphy) could become as successful as the priggish Winthorpe (Dan Akroyd) if circumstances were reversed. The Dukes have the money to make this happen, but when Valentine and Winthorpe catch on they arrange for a rich and riotous payback!Amazon.com essen… More >>
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How do they get the crop report to the US government? Clarence Beeks is on a ship to Africa. Does the US Gov’t accept the orange crop report from any old idiot???
Seriously, I love this movie forever.
Rating: 1 / 5
eddie murphy was da star in this as was other saturday night live star dan akrol was this movie apart da two of them living different lives eddie was a homeless person while dan akrol was a upper class business man two old men who are business brothers who have a network estimated in the film of 394 million dollars ruin dan arkol life while turn needy eddie turn a successful black bill gates but it was all over a bet of 1 dollar but da goes around comes back around 4 these 2 as they both lost all of their money and went broke 2 live on da streets while all da millions and maybe a billion went 2 eddie and dan and toward da end of da movie eddie and dan was in pardise with 2 pretty girls and da was da ending to a very good comedy movie Joe Brown
Rating: 3 / 5
Format: Color
Studio: Paramount Studio
Video Release Date: August 19, 2003
Cast:
Dan Aykroyd … Louis Winthorpe III
Eddie Murphy … Billy Ray Valentine
Ralph Bellamy … Randolph Duke
Don Ameche … Mortimer Duke
Denholm Elliott … Coleman
Jamie Lee Curtis … Ophelia
Kristin Holby … Penelope Witherspoon
Paul Gleason … Clarence Beeks
Alfred Drake … President of Exchange
Bo Diddley … Pawnbroker
Frank Oz … Corrupt cop
James Belushi … Harvey
Al Franken … Baggage handler #1
Tom Davis … Baggage handler #2
Maurice Woods … Duke & Duke employee
Richard D. Fisher Jr. … Duke & Duke employee
Jim Gallagher … Duke & Duke employee
Anthony DiSabatino … Duke & Duke employee
Bonnie Behrend … Duke & Duke employee
Sunnie Merrill … Duke & Duke employee
James Newell … Duke & Duke employee
Mary St. John … Duke & Duke employee
Bonnie Tremena … Duke & Duke employee
David Schwartz … Duke & Duke employee
Tom Degidon … Duke domestic
William Magerman … Duke domestic
Alan Dellay … Duke domestic
Florence Anglin … Duke domestic
Ray D’Amore … Duke domestic
Bobra Suiter … Duke domestic
Herb Peterson … Duke domestic
Sue Dugan … Duke domestic
Walt Gorney … Duke domestic
B. Constance Barry … Duke domestic
P. Jay Sidney … Heritage Club doorman
Avon Long … Ezra
Tom Mardirosian … Officer Pancuzzi
Charles Brown … Officer Reynolds
Robert Curtis-Brown … Todd
Nicholas Guest … Harry
John Bedford Lloyd … Andrew
Tony Sherer … Philip
Robert Earl Jones … Attendant
Robert E. Lee … Cop #1
Peter Hock … Cop #2
Clint Smith … Doo Rag Lenny
Ron Taylor … Big black guy
James D. Turner … Even bigger black guy
Giancarlo Esposito … Cellmate #2
Steve Hofvendahl … Cellmate #3
Gwyllum Evans … President of Heritage Club
Eddie Jones … Cop #3
John McCurry … Cop #4
Michelle Mais … Hooker #1
Barra Kahn … Hooker #2
Bill Cobbs … Bartender
Joshua Daniel … Partygoer
Jacques Sandulescu … Creepy man
W.B. Brydon … Bank Manager
Margaret H. Flynn … Duke & Duke receptionist
Kelly Curtis … Muffy
Tracy K. Shaffer … Constance
Susan Fallender … Bunny
Lucianne Buchanan … President’s mistress
Paul Garcia … Junior executive #1
Jed Gillin … Junior executive #2
Jimmy Raitt … Ophelia’s client
Kate Taylor … Dukes’ Secretary
Philip Bosco … Doctor
Bill Boggs … Newscaster
Deborah Reagan … Harvey’s girlfriend
Don McLeod … Gorilla
Stephen Stucker … Stationmaster
Richard Hunt … Wilson
Paul Austin … Trader #1
John Randolph Jones … Trader #2
Jack Davidson … Trader #3
Bernie McInerney … Trader #4
Maurice Copeland … Secretary of Agriculture
Ralph Clanton … Official #1
Bryan Clark … Official #2
Gary Howard Klar … Longshoreman
Afemo Omilami … Longshoreman
Shelly Chee Chee Hall … Monica
Donna Palmer … Gladys
Barry Dennen … Demitri
James Eckhouse … Jail guard
Arleen Sorkin … Woman at party
Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) and Louis Winthorpe, the Third (Dan Ackroyd) are forced to see how the “other half” lives, when the wealthy Duke brothers (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche – Winthorpe’s employers, make a one dollar bet that they can take anybody off the street and make them a commodities broker. They do so, ruining Winthorpe in the process, and replacing him with Valentine.
Can it work? And if it does, can Winthorpe get his revenge? This is good comedy.
Ackroyd and Murphy work well together, and make a great comedy team.
Joseph (Joe) Pierre
author of Handguns and Freedom…their care and maintenance
and other books
Rating: 4 / 5
The movie is funny enough, but the main reason to buy this DVD is for the pause function and the scene with Jamie Lee Curtis topless. Oh yeah, and Eddie Murphy is pretty funny, too.
Rating: 4 / 5
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!
Rating: 4 / 5