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Released in 1983 and running 116 minutes this is VERY funny film if you suspend a little belief .That is relatively easy considering the excellent cast starting with both Eddie Murphy, and Dan Aykroyd as two guys who are tricked into switching places at the whim of two old bored rich guys played by Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche.I only took 1 star off for the wild idea you have to accept.That said,its as funny as can be as the dialog and acting is fabulous.Lines like "you guys sound like a couple of bookies to me",and if I remember right,the best way to get back at rich people are to make them poor,run throughout.Must see,IMDB summary below and trailer follows pix.
Louis Winthorpe is a businessman who works for commodities brokerage firm of Duke and Duke owned by the brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke. Now they bicker over the most trivial of matters and what they are bickering about is whether it's a person's environment or heredity that determines how well they will do in life. When Winthorpe bumps into Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler and assumes he is trying to rob him, he has him arrested. Upon seeing how different the two men are, the brothers decide to make a wager as to what would happen if Winthorpe loses his job, his home and is shunned by everyone he knows and if Valentine was given Winthorpe's job. So they proceed to have Winthorpe arrested and to be placed in a compromising position in front of his girlfriend. So all he has to rely on is the hooker who was hired to ruin him. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com
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