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Sign In. Denholm Elliott Coleman. Richard D. Fisher Jr.

Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Ralph Bellamy Randolph and Don Ameche Mortimer make cameo appearances in Coming to America as the same characters; the two are now homeless, and Prince Akeem Eddie Murphy gives them a large amount of money to get them back off the streets. In , as part of the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act, which was to regulate financial markets, a rule was included which barred anyone from using secret inside information to corner markets, similar to what the Duke brothers tried to do in the movie. Since the movie inspired this rule, it has since become known as the Eddie Murphy Rule.

Imdb trading places

Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Featured in. Clips are shown. Movie is reviewed. Eddie Murphy introduces a clip from his movie. A clip is shown. Trading Places: Trading Stories Video Making Of. Sunset Blvd. TV version only includes clip from Sunset Blvd. To Catch a Thief

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Sign In. Edit Trading Places Directed by John Landis Coleman Dan Aykroyd Fisher Jr. Randolph Duke Don Ameche

Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Jump to Summaries 6 Synopsis 1 Edit. A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires. Louis Winthorpe is a businessman who works for commodities brokerage firm of Duke and Duke owned by the brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke. Now they bicker over the most trivial of matters and what they are bickering about is whether it's a person's environment or heredity that determines how well they will do in life. When Winthorpe bumps into Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler and assumes he is trying to rob him, he has him arrested.

Imdb trading places

And it's a great idea for a story: A white preppy snot and a black street hustler trade places, and learn new skills they never dreamed existed. But like a lot of stories, it depends less on plot than on character, and the characters in "Trading Places" are wonderful comic inventions. Eddie Murphy plays Billy Ray Valentine, the con man who makes his first appearance as a blind, legless veteran. And, in a masterstroke of casting, those aging veterans Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche are cast as the Duke brothers, incalculably rich men who make little wagers involving human lives. One day a particularly tempting wager occurs to them. Aykroyd has had Murphy arrested for stealing his briefcase. It's an unfair charge and Murphy is innocent, but Murphy is black and had the misfortune to bump into Aykroyd is front of a snobby club. To Mortimer Duke Ameche , a believer that environment counts for more than heredity, this is a golden opportunity to test his theory. He bets his brother that if Aykroyd and Murphy were to change places, the black street kid would soon be just as good as calling the shots in the commodity markets as the white Ivy Leaguer ever was. Because the Dukes are rich, they can make almost anything happen.

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To Catch a Thief In some forex market, they'll even let you do x. Technical specs Edit. Joshua Daniel Party Goer. Gorilla Stephen Stucker Officer Reynolds Robert Curtis Brown Michelle Mais Hooker 1 as Michele Mais. John Landis Man with Briefcase uncredited. Ophelia Jacques Sandulescu Man in Police Station uncredited. Mabuse, the Gambler Copeland Ralph Clanton Frank Oz Corrupt Cop. Extra uncredited.

Eddie Murphy Billy Ray Valentine. Ralph Bellamy Randolph Duke. Don Ameche Mortimer Duke.

Weiman Sr. Attendant Robert E. Trader 3 Bernie McInerney How was the Duke brother's plan to corner the orange juice market supposed to work? Edie Falco : A young Edie Falco appears as a coach passenger, looking disgusted at Winthorpe as he bites into a salmon he lifted from the firm's party, at around the 81 minutes mark. More from this title. Jimmy Raitt Ophelia's Client. John Landis : [breaking the fourth wall] at around 56 mins When the Dukes explain to Billy Ray what bacon is, he looks directly into the camera as if to say, "These guys must think I'm a complete idiot. The Shining William Magerman Duke Domestic. Bit part uncredited.