---
title: 'Trading Places (1983)'
type: 'film'
director: 'John Landis'
released: '1983-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 116
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/trading-places-1983'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Trading Places (1983)

1983 · 116 min · Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod. Starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis, the film tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker (Aykroyd) and a poor street hustler (Murphy) whose lives intersect over the Christmas and New Year holidays when they are unwittingly made the subjects of an elaborate bet to test how each man will perform when their life circumstances are swapped.

## Credits

- **Director:** [John Landis](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-landis)
- **Screenplay:** [Herschel Weingrod](https://cinepixo.com/people/herschel-weingrod), [Timothy Harris](https://cinepixo.com/people/timothy-harris)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Elmer Bernstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/elmer-bernstein)
- **Producer:** [Aaron Russo](https://cinepixo.com/people/aaron-russo)
- **Director of Photography:** [Robert Paynter](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-paynter)
- **Editor:** [Malcolm Campbell](https://cinepixo.com/people/malcolm-campbell)

## Cast

- [Alfred Drake](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-drake)
- [Jamie Lee Curtis](https://cinepixo.com/people/jamie-lee-curtis) as Ophelia
- [Paul Gleason](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-gleason)
- [Bill Cobbs](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-cobbs)
- [Eddie Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/eddie-jones)
- [Ron Taylor](https://cinepixo.com/people/ron-taylor)
- [John Bedford Lloyd](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-bedford-lloyd)
- [Barry Dennen](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-dennen)
- [Don Ameche](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-ameche) as Mortimer Duke
- [Frank Oz](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-oz)
- [Kelly Curtis](https://cinepixo.com/people/kelly-curtis)
- [Ralph Bellamy](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-bellamy) as Randolph Duke
- [Robert Curtis Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-curtis-brown)
- [Al Franken](https://cinepixo.com/people/al-franken)
- [Tom Mardirosian](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-mardirosian)

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