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Trading Places(1982(?))

Wolff rating: UNSURPASSED

Plot summary: Two financial giants decide to swap a brother from the ghetto for a successful commodities trader on a bet.

Biased, pithy comments: This is a wonderful film, carefully crafted and subtly ironic. Akroyd and Murphy have good chemistry, and the premise is ironic and fantastic. I whole-heartedly approve. Landis's best.

Other Notes: Ameche juggling the money clip was actually a blooper that they left in.

How many times I have seen it: x5

Starring: Eddie Murphy, Dan Akroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Ameche
Directed by: John Landis


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