"Trading Places Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis and starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. It tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker and a homeless street hustler whose lives cross paths when they are unknowingly made part of an elaborate bet. Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis also star. The storyline is often called a modern take on Mark Twain's classic 19th-century novel ""The Prince and the Pauper"". The film was written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod and was produced by Aaron Russo. It was released to"
"heavy-handed"". Beginning from the premise that, in the film, the ""expectations of the races also stand upon their head"", Budd states that ""through even a highly comedic vessel a message loudly asking for a reassessment of prejudice, and for level playing fields, is heard."" ""Trading Places"" was released theatrically in the United States on June 10, 1983. During its opening weekend, the film earned $7.3 million from 1,375 theaters—an average of $5,334 per theater—ranking as the third highest-grossing film of the weekend, behind ""Octopussy"" ($8.9 million)—debuting the same weekend—and ""Return of the Jedi"" ($12 million). The film remained in the"
"7.4/10. The site's consensus states: ""Featuring deft interplay between Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, ""Trading Places"" is an immensely appealing social satire."" Metacritic gave the film a score of 66 out of 100, based on 9 critics, which indicates ""generally favorable reviews"". Author and critic Richard Schickel of ""Time"" magazine called ""Trading Places"" ""one of the most emotionally satisfying and morally gratifying comedies of recent times"". While admitting Aykroyd's success in demonstrating ""perfect prissiness as Winthorpe"", Schickel commented on Murphy's performance as Valentine calling Murphy ""a force to be reckoned with"" and stating that he ""makes ""Trading Places"" something more"
"Aaron Russo Aaron Russo (; February 14, 1943 – August 24, 2007) was an American entertainment businessman, film producer and director, and political activist. He was best known for producing such movies as ""Trading Places"", ""Wise Guys"", and ""The Rose"". Later in life, he created various Libertarian-leaning political documentaries including ""Mad as Hell"" and """". After a six-year battle with cancer, Russo died on August 24, 2007. Aaron Russo was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1943 in a Jewish family. Growing up on Long Island, Russo worked for his family's undergarment business. In April 1968, Russo opened the nightclub"
"America – and give them an opportunity to try to change things"". On August 24, 2007, Russo died at the age of 64 of cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Aaron Russo Aaron Russo (; February 14, 1943 – August 24, 2007) was an American entertainment businessman, film producer and director, and political activist. He was best known for producing such movies as ""Trading Places"", ""Wise Guys"", and ""The Rose"". Later in life, he created various Libertarian-leaning political documentaries including ""Mad as Hell"" and """". After a six-year battle with cancer, Russo died on August 24, 2007. Aaron"
"deft interplay between Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, Trading Places is an immensely appealing social satire."" In 1993, white actor Ted Danson ignited a firestorm of controversy when he appeared at a New York Friars' Club roast in blackface, delivering a risqué shtick written by his then love interest, African-American comedian Whoopi Goldberg. Blackface and minstrelsy serve as the theme of Spike Lee's film ""Bamboozled"" (2000). It tells of a disgruntled black television executive who reintroduces the old blackface style in a series concept in an attempt to get himself fired, and is instead horrified by its success. The original"
"commercially and artistically. His first three American feature films all co-starred Belushi. The first, ""1941"" (1979), directed by Steven Spielberg, was a box office disappointment. The second, ""The Blues Brothers"" (1980), which he co-wrote with director John Landis, was a massive hit. The third, ""Neighbors"" (1981) had mixed critical reaction but was another box-office hit. One of his best-received performances was as a blueblood-turned-wretch in the 1983 comedy ""Trading Places"", in which he co-starred with fellow ""SNL"" alumnus Eddie Murphy as well as Jamie Lee Curtis. In the early 1980s, Aykroyd began work on a script for the film that"
"Going Places (1938 film) Going Places is a 1938 American musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright. Dick Powell plays a sporting goods salesman who is forced to pose as a famous horseman as part of his scheme to boost sales and gets entangled in his lies. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song ""Jeepers Creepers"", premiered in this movie by Louis Armstrong, who sings it to a horse. Two earlier films, both entitled ""The Hottentot"" (1929) and ""The Hottentot"" (1922 silent version), were based on the same source. The song ""Jeepers"
"Trade (film) Trade is a 2007 American-German drama film directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner and starring Kevin Kline. It was produced by Roland Emmerich and Rosilyn Heller. The film premiered January 23, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and opened in limited release on September 28, 2007. It is based on Peter Landesman's article ""The Girls Next Door"" about sex slaves, which was featured as the cover story in the January 24, 2004 issue of ""The New York Times Magazine"". In a poor family in Mexico City, Adriana (Paulina Gaitán) celebrates her 13th birthday, and is happy about the bicycle"
"1982. Nolte was scheduled to host the December 11, 1982, Christmas episode of ""Saturday Night Live"", but became too ill to host, so Murphy took over. He became the only cast member to host while still a regular. Murphy opened the show with the phrase, ""Live from New York, It's the Eddie Murphy Show!"" The following year, Murphy starred in ""Trading Places"" with fellow ""SNL"" alumnus Dan Aykroyd. The movie marked the first of Murphy's collaborations with director John Landis (who also directed Murphy in ""Coming to America"" and ""Beverly Hills Cop III"") and proved to be an even greater"
"instead of ‘Delancey Place’, or a hybrid of the two names for the blocks between Seventeenth Street and Twenty-sixth Street Scenes from at least six movies and a television show were filmed on Delancey Place and all on the 2000 block, which is Philadelphia’s ‘most filmed residential block’. In the films and the show, the main characters live in real houses on the block, in nos. 2006, 2014, 2032, 2036, and 2037 Delancey Place. In ""Trading Places"" (1983), a poor street hustler named Billy Rae Valentine (played by Eddie Murphy) trades places with the managing director of a brokerage firm,"
"published in 1969 in the United Kingdom and 1970 in the United States. Harris' film career started in the 1980s when he struck a friendship with Herschel Weingrod. With Weingrod, Harris collaborated on several projects writing stories and screenplays for films such as ""Trading Places"", ""Brewster's Millions"", ""Twins"", ""Kindergarten Cop"" and ""Space Jam"". The pair also produced Joel Schumacher's 1993 film ""Falling Down"". In reviewing Woody Allen's film ""Zelig"" for ""The New York Times"" in July 1983, film critic Vincent Canby said """"Trading Places"" is one of the best American comedies in a long time, but I'd be hard-put to"
"and ""Trading Places"", before leaving for his film career in early 1984. Much of the Ebersol cast departed after the 1983–84 season and were replaced with established comedians who could supply their own material, but at an inflated cost; Billy Crystal and Martin Short were paid $25,000 and $20,000 per episode respectively, a far cry from earlier salaries. Michaels's return in 1985 saw a cast reset that featured established talent such as Robert Downey Jr., Jon Lovitz, and Dennis Miller. The season was poorly received, and another reset followed in 1986. Learning his lesson from the previous season, Michaels avoided"
"Dark Places (2015 film) Dark Places is a 2015 mystery thriller film directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner. The screenplay, by Paquet-Brenner, is based on Gillian Flynn's 2009 novel of the same name. It stars Charlize Theron, Christina Hendricks, Nicholas Hoult, and Chloë Grace Moretz. The film was released in France on April 8, 2015, and in the United States on August 7, 2015, by A24. It is the second film on which Theron and Hoult have collaborated, the first being """". The film opens in 1985 in Kinnakee, Kansas, where Libby Day is the sole survivor of the massacre of her"
"Skin Trade (film) Skin Trade is a 2014 American action thriller film directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham. It stars Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Michael Jai White, and Ron Perlman. Lundgren wrote the film with Gabriel Dowrick and Steven Elder, while John Hyams performed uncredited script revisions. The film centers around New Jersey police detective Nick Cassidy, as he travels to Asia intent on killing the man who murdered his family, mobster Viktor Dragovic. Development started in 2007 after Lundgren read a news report about a group of girls being smuggled into the United States from Mexico. The girls were left in"
"Trade of Innocents Trade of Innocents is a 2012 American made thriller independent film written and directed by Christopher Bessette and starring Dermot Mulroney, Mira Sorvino, John Billingsley and Trieu Tran. The film was shot on location in Bangkok, Thailand. It will look to bring awareness and involvement to work against human trafficking. In the back streets of a tourist town in present-day Southeast Asia, we find a filthy cinder block room; a bed with soiled sheets; a little girl waits for the next man to use her. Alex, a human trafficking investigator plays the role of her next customer"
"Trade Winds (film) Trade Winds is a 1938 American comedy film distributed by United Artists, directed by Tay Garnett, and starring Fredric March and Joan Bennett, with a supporting cast featuring Thomas Mitchell, Ralph Bellamy, and Ann Southern. The screenplay was written by Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, and Frank R. Adams, based on story by Tay Garnett. Former police detective Sam Wye (Fredric March) is on the trail of socialite Kay Kerrigan (Joan Bennett) who is accused of fatally shooting millionaire cad Thomas Bruhme (Sidney Blackmer). Kay has taken a ship to the South Seas followed by Sam, Sam's secretary"
"John Landis John David Landis (; born August 3, 1950) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is best known for the comedy films that he has directed, such as ""National Lampoon's Animal House"" (1978), ""The Blues Brothers"" (1980), ""An American Werewolf in London"" (1981), ""Trading Places"" (1983), ""Three Amigos"" (1986), ""Coming to America"" (1988) and ""Beverly Hills Cop III"" (1994), and for directing Michael Jackson's music videos for ""Thriller"" (1983) and ""Black or White"" (1991). Landis was born into a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Shirley Levine (née Magaziner) and Marshall Landis, an"
"Going Places (upcoming film) Going Places is an upcoming American crime comedy film written by, directed by, and starring John Turturro, acting as both a remake of the 1974 French film of the same name by Bertrand Blier, and a spin-off to the 1998 cult film ""The Big Lebowski"" by the Coen brothers, from which Turturro reprises his role as Jesus Quintana. Like the original ""Going Places"", it follows a trio of sexually depraved misfits, played by Turturro, Bobby Cannavale, and Audrey Tautou. The Coen brothers, who wrote, directed, and produced ""The Big Lebowski"", stated on several occasions that they"
"Creepers"" was nominated for the American Film Institute list AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs. Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren won a ""Best Song Oscar"" nomination for ""Jeepers Creepers."" The song later would be sung in ""Yankee Doodle Dandy"" (1942), ""The Day of the Locust"" (1975), ""The Cheap Detective"" (1978) and the horror thriller ""Jeepers Creepers"" (2001) directed by Victor Salva. Going Places (1938 film) Going Places is a 1938 American musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright. Dick Powell plays a sporting goods salesman who is forced to pose as a famous horseman as part of his scheme to boost sales"
"Trade""] as a franchise, but when I was over there [in Thailand], I started thinking, 'How would I do this different? How would I stay close to the subject matter?' Organ trafficking is quite big as well, so I thought that could be interesting. We could follow up with some kind of other trade."" Skin Trade (film) Skin Trade is a 2014 American action thriller film directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham. It stars Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Michael Jai White, and Ron Perlman. Lundgren wrote the film with Gabriel Dowrick and Steven Elder, while John Hyams performed uncredited script revisions. The"
"Scott, ""Character Kings: Hollywood's Familiar Faces Discuss the Art & Business of Acting."" BearManor Media, 2009. . Paul Gleason Paul Xavier Gleason (May 4, 1939 – May 27, 2006) was an American film and television actor, known for his roles on television series such as ""All My Children"" and films such as ""The Breakfast Club"", ""Trading Places"", and ""Die Hard"". Gleason was born on May 4, 1939 in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of Eleanor (née Doyle), a registered nurse, and George L. Gleason, a restaurateur, professional boxer, iron worker, and roofing manufacturer. Gleason was raised in Miami Beach,"
"A Place for Lovers A Place for Lovers (, ) is a 1968 French-Italian romantic drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica, written by Brunello Rondi, Julian Zimet, Peter Baldwin, Ennio De Concini, Tonino Guerra, Cesare Zavattini based on the play ""Gli Amanti"" by Brunello Rondi and Renaldo Cabieri, and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Faye Dunaway as a terminally ill American fashion designer in Venice, Italy who has a whirlwind affair with a race car driver (played by Marcello Mastroianni). The rich fashion designer Julia is tired of living because she knows she is suffering from a malignant"
"Trading Christmas Trading Christmas is a 2011 Christmas film directed by Michael Scott and starring Faith Ford, Tom Cavanagh, Gil Bellows, Gabrielle Miller, Emma Lahana, and Andrew Francis. The film is based on the novel of the same name by author Debbie Macomber, who also serves as a producer. The film premiered on the Hallmark Channel on November 26, 2011. Three years after her husband died, Emily Spengler (Faith Ford), a 2nd grade teacher in the small Washington town of South Woodbourne, is preparing for the arrival of her daughter, Heather (Emma Lahana), who is attending school at Boston College."
"wits and bumbling whim to determine who gets to stay open, and who gets traded in. The film is set in Tucson, Arizona. Filming locations include local businesses Aufmuth Motors and Howl at the Moon. ""Trade In"" made its world premiere on September 19, 2009 at the Fox Tucson Theatre, located in downtown Tucson. Trade In Trade In is a 2009 comedy film in post production, directed by Jackie Lee James. The film was written by Jason Moore, Kris Sharma and Drew Grubich. The film stars Chris Mascarelli, Tiffany Shepis, and Christina Leigh. Marty (Mascarelli), owner of the used car"
"Paul Gleason Paul Xavier Gleason (May 4, 1939 – May 27, 2006) was an American film and television actor, known for his roles on television series such as ""All My Children"" and films such as ""The Breakfast Club"", ""Trading Places"", and ""Die Hard"". Gleason was born on May 4, 1939 in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of Eleanor (née Doyle), a registered nurse, and George L. Gleason, a restaurateur, professional boxer, iron worker, and roofing manufacturer. Gleason was raised in Miami Beach, Florida. At age 16, he ran away from home and hitchhiked across the east coast, sleeping on"
"Washington. They are visited for Christmas by Faith and Charles, who are now married and expecting a child. The film ends with the characters celebrating Christmas. Trading Christmas Trading Christmas is a 2011 Christmas film directed by Michael Scott and starring Faith Ford, Tom Cavanagh, Gil Bellows, Gabrielle Miller, Emma Lahana, and Andrew Francis. The film is based on the novel of the same name by author Debbie Macomber, who also serves as a producer. The film premiered on the Hallmark Channel on November 26, 2011. Three years after her husband died, Emily Spengler (Faith Ford), a 2nd grade teacher"
"Traded (film) Traded is a 2016 American western film directed by Timothy Woodward Jr. and starring Kris Kristofferson, Trace Adkins and Michael Paré. The film opens with the narrator stating that women have little value in the West and many become prostitutes. Women are sold and traded like property in Kansas. In a western cabin 17 year daughter, Lily, asks Dad, Clay, if she can go to the ""tie dance"" and he says no despite Mom's support. Son, Jake, is sent outside to fetch some honey and is fatally bitten by a rattlesnake. After the funeral and the passage of"
"Tamar Simon Hoffs Tamar Simon Hoffs (""nee"" Tamar Ruth Simon; October 23, 1934) is an American film director, writer, and producer, best known for directing the indie films ""Red Roses and Petrol"" (2003) and ""Pound of Flesh"" (2009), both starring Malcolm McDowell. Hoffs was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Kelsey H. and Rabbi Ralph Simon. She grew up in Chicago and received a BA from the University of Chicago, followed by Graduate Studies at Yale University School of Fine Arts and the Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design. After moving to Los Angeles, Hoffs entered the filmmaking"
"New York City, eventually joining The Actors Studio, where he would study for four years before moving to Los Angeles. Gleason starred in many movies, and became well-known initially as Dr. David Thornton on ""All My Children"", playing the role from 1976 to 1978. He guest-starred in ""The Trouble with Harry"" and ""Fire"", two episodes of ""The A-Team"". Gleason was known to ""Star Wars"" fans for his role as Jeremitt Towani in the 1985 made-for-TV film """". He played the villainous Clarence Beeks, the Duke brothers' inside trader, in the 1983 comedy ""Trading Places"" starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy."
"top ten grossing films for 17 weeks. It went on to earn $90.4 million during its U.S. theatrical run, making it the 4th highest-grossing film of 1983, behind ""Flashdance"" ($92.9 million), ""Terms of Endearment"" ($108.4 million) and ""Return of the Jedi"" ($252.5 million), and the second highest grossing R-rated film of 1983, behind ""Flashdance"". Adjusted for inflation, the film remains the number 58 highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. ""Trading Places"" was met with positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 86%, based on 44 reviews, with an average rating of"
"Trading Mom Trading Mom, also known as The Mommy Market, is a 1994 American fantasy/comedy film written and directed by Tia Brelis, based on her mother Nancy Brelis' homonymous book. It stars Sissy Spacek and Anna Chlumsky, and André the Giant. Elizabeth, Jeremy, and Harry Martin are three children who have had up to here with their nagging mother...a widowed strict workaholic who rarely spends quality time with, or even speaks to, them - except to criticize or scold them ever since their father had passed away. Following a disastrous last day of school (Principal Leeby finds Elizabeth holding -"
"Going Places (1974 film) Going Places is a 1974 French erotic comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Bertrand Blier, and based on his own novel. Its original title is Les Valseuses, which translates into English as ""the waltzers"" , a vulgar French slang term for ""the testicles"". It stars Miou-Miou, Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere. It is widely considered one of the most controversial movies in French cinema history due to its vulgarity, depiction of sexual acts, nudity, and moral ambiguity; however, Blier's later acclaim for the rest of his filmography made it a cult film for modern critics. An"