# Trading Places (1983)

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**Runtime**: 116 min
**Genres**: Comedy
**Directed by**: John Landis
**Written by**: Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod
**Starring**: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, Jamie Lee Curtis

> *They're not just getting rich... They're getting even.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, cozy, playful

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 7.5/10 (176670 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 87% · Metacritic 69/100

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