Trading Places

Trading Places (1983) is an American comedy written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod, 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.

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

Cast

 * Dan Aykroyd as Louis Winthorpe III
 * Eddie Murphy as Billy Ray Valentine
 * Ralph Bellamy as Randolph Duke
 * Don Ameche as Mortimer Duke
 * Denholm Elliott as Coleman
 * Jamie Lee Curtis as Ophelia
 * Kristin Holby as Penelope Witherspoon
 * Paul Gleason as Clarence Beeks

Trivia

 * The storyline is often called a modern take on Mark Twain's classic 19th century novel The Prince and the Pauper.