A snobbish wall street commodities broker and a wily street hustler find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaire brothers who run a brokerage house. Trading places is a 1983 american comedy film directed by john landis and written by timothy harris and herschel weingrod Eddie murphy, dan aykroyd, ralph bellamy, don ameche, jamie. Jamie lee curtis credits trading places with changing her career trajectory, leading to her later oscar win Director john landis fought to cast curtis in the film, despite pushback from paramount pictures. After she made waves playing final girl laurie strode in halloween, and long before she showed off her hot dog fingers in everything everywhere all at once, curtis starred in landis' 1983 comedy.
The film gave us an unforgettable trio Trading places trivia → according to john landis, jamie lee curtis was a hard sell to “paramount,” because she had only done horror films and wasn’t known for comedy → while she was making this movie, jamie lee curtis stayed in marlene dietrich’s apartment (12e) at 993 park avenue in manhattan.
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