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TRADING PLACES 15

1983

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EXTRAS

Featurettes, Deleted scene

John Landis’-esque comedy stars Dan Aykroyd as a commodities trader and Eddie Murphy as a street hustler whose lives are swapped as part of an elaborate bet about nature versus nurture. While some aspects haven’t aged well, for the most part this is a LOL-filled update of the sort of social comedies Preston Sturges was making five decades earlier (, et al). In other words, bawdy comic brilliance that might just teach you something about the human condition. Extras are mostly old material, aside from a brief new Landis chat.

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