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
Dark Places (2015 film) Louisiana. "Dark Places" was released in France on April 8, 2015. In November 2014, it was announced A24 Films and DirecTV Cinema had acquired rights to the film. The film began airing on DirecTV Cinema on June 18, 2015, and was released in limited release and through video on demand on August 7, 2015. The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 25% approval rating based on 77 reviews, with an average rating of 4.8/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigns a score of 39 out of 100,