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In the movie Trading Places, starring Eddie Murphy, the Duke brothers intended to profit from trades in frozen concentrated orange juice futures contracts using an illicitly obtained and not yet public Department of Agriculture orange crop report. Characters played by Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd intercept the misappropriated report and trade ...
Jun 8, 1983 · Trading Places: Directed by John Landis. With Denholm Elliott, Dan Aykroyd, Maurice Woods, Richard D. Fisher Jr.. A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Upper-crust executive Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd) and down-and-out hustler Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) are the subjects of a bet by successful brokers Mortimer (Don Ameche) and ...
Feb 10, 2021 · Now on Blu-ray™ and Digital Get it now: https://paramnt.us/GetTradingPlacesWhat happens when you combine the comic genius of Eddie Murphy with Dan Aykroyd an...
On the commodities trading floor, the Dukes commit all their holdings to buying frozen concentrated orange-juice futures contracts; other traders follow their lead, inflating the price. Before the real crop report is broadcast, Valentine and Winthorpe sell futures heavily at the increased price.
But what's most visible in the movie is the engaging acting. Murphy and Aykroyd are perfect foils for each other in "Trading Places," because they're both capable of being so specifically eccentric that we're never just looking at a "black" and a "white" (that would make the comedy unworkable).
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