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  • Trading Places
  • Runtime:1 hr. 56 min.
  • R
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+. Read More
  • Upper-crust executive Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd) and down-and-out hustler Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) are the subjects of a bet by successful brokers Mortimer (Don Ameche) and Randolph Duke (Ralph Bellamy). An employee of the Dukes, Read More
  • Cast: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Director: John Landis
  • Genres: Satire, Comedy of Manners, Comedy

Trading Places Critic Reviews

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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 88
    Boston Globe | Jay Carr

    It's easily the best of the movies I've seen by the various "Saturday Night...

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    But what's most visible in the movie is the engaging acting. Murphy and Aykroyd...

  • 80
    Empire |

    Saturday Night Live activist Murphy, capitalising on the promise he showed in...

  • 80
    Time | Richard Schickel

    [Murphy] makes Trading Places something more than a good-hearted comedy. He...

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