TOTAL FILM RETROSPECTIVE
I got away with stuff mainly because I just did it,’ says filmmaking icon John Landis of Trading Places, his stock-market switch-up that has since become an unlikely Christmas staple despite going against studio casting demands and including scenes that haven't aged well.
Landis’ comedy – about wealthy banker Louis Winthorpe III swapping social status with street hustler Billy Ray Valentine thanks to a cruel bet made by two commodity broker brothers, Randolph and Mortimer Duke –became the fourth highest–grossing film at the 1983
