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  • 11 years ago
116 min - Comedy - 8 June 1983 (USA)

A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

Director: John Landis
Writers: Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod
Stars: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy
Transcript
00:00I had the most absurd nightmare.
00:16I was poor and no one liked me.
00:17I know what you're thinking.
00:18You see Pa again, man?
00:19We can make it, baby.
00:20Me and you.
00:21Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy are Trading Places.
00:22Help!
00:23Help!
00:24Hey, I don't want your bag, man.
00:25Help!
00:26Help!
00:27Help!
00:28Help!
00:29I'll bet that that man could run our company as well as your young Woodthorpe.
00:45Are we talking about a wager, Randolph?
00:47Is there a problem, officer?
00:49Oh, Woodthorpe.
00:52I'm glad your parents are not alive to see this.
00:55What?
00:56No, wait!
00:57Now this is totally preposterous!
00:58I'm not a thief!
00:59Here we are.
01:00William.
01:01Take off your clothes.
01:02You are making a career decision here.
01:03Take off your clothes.
01:04Did you hear what this man said to me?
01:05I have witnesses.
01:06This man is physically threatening me.
01:07Hey, Randy.
01:08Bossy.
01:09This is nice.
01:10I like this.
01:11Hey, Randy.
01:12Bossy.
01:13This is nice.
01:14I like this.
01:15Hey, Randy.
01:16Bossy.
01:17This is nice.
01:18I like this.
01:19Hey, Randy.
01:20Bossy.
01:21This is nice.
01:23We are commodities brokers, William.
01:27Commodities are agricultural products, like wheat, which is used to make bread, pork bellies,
01:33which is used to make bacon, which you might find in a bacon and lettuce and tomato sandwich.
01:44I'm considering going long on April wheat.
01:47What do you think, Valentine?
01:52Freeze, slimeball!
01:54Moi?
01:55Put that gun away at once, Winthrop!
01:57You lost your mind?
02:01Dan Aykroyd. Eddie Murphy.
02:04They're not just getting rich, they're getting even.
02:07Do you have any better ideas?
02:09Yeah, you know, it occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people.
02:14Dan Aykroyd.
02:17Eddie Murphy.
02:19Whoo! Bad, wasn't it? Ha!
02:24Ralph Bellamy.
02:25We've got to get Wilson and tell him to shut up!
02:29Donna Meachie.
02:31Oh, this isn't Monopoly money we're playing with.
02:34Denim Elliott.
02:36What a scumbag.
02:38And Jamie Lee Curtis.
02:40By the way, food and rent, not the only things around here that cost money.
02:45You sleep on the couch.
02:49Trading Places.
02:51It's a very funny business.
02:56South Island, April of 142!
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