If you loved Coming to America, try Trading Places
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by John Landis, and they both carry the playful mood tag, and they sit in Comedy territory. If that's the register that drew you to Coming to America, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Trading Places is
Wall Street’s most polished jerk and the city’s slickest grifter swap lives after a rich man’s bet. What begins as a cruel prank spirals into a lesson neither man wanted. The result is a comedy so aggressively amiable it forgets to pack its punchlines.

