Trading Places Trading Places Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis and starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. It tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker and a homeless street hustler whose lives cross paths when they are unknowingly made part of an elaborate bet. Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis also star. The storyline is often called a modern take on Mark Twain's classic 19th-century novel "The Prince and the Pauper". The film was written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod and was produced by Aaron Russo. It was released to
Trading Places by a recognition of their faults and no revolutionary desire to see the world formed on a new basis." David Budd, in his 2002 book "Culture Meets Culture in the Movies", writes about the experiences of characters when the expected roles of races in society are sometimes reversed. The 1995 fiction film "White Man's Burden" and John Howard Griffin's factual book "Black Like Me" are used as a foundation to show how different the experience of white people can be when subjected to the prejudices faced by black people. In that respect, Budd proclaims "Trading Places" as "uncannily illustrative if