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It being December and all, we decided to watch a holiday movie. The only problem is the one type of movie Jena has watched is Christmas movies. That meant we had to go for a movie that had a rather loose relationship to the holiday. We returned to the heady days of Eddie Murphy’s youth when his career still seemed to be going places to watch a movie about classism, racism and gorilla sex. That’s right, we watched Trading Places! And yes, we said gorilla sex.
Join us for our next episode on January 1st. We’ll be watching and discussing Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo!
| Trading Places (1983) | |
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Rating: 7.5/10 (109,557 votes) Director: John Landis Writer: Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod Stars: Denholm Elliott, Dan Aykroyd, Maurice Woods, Richard D. Fisher Jr. Runtime: 116 min Rated: R Genre: Comedy Released: 08 Jun 1983 |
| Plot: A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires. | |
2 comments
Devonin
January 15, 2014 at 8:15 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Of possible interest regarding the actual financial events of the end of the movie, why they actually won:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/07/19/201430727/what-actually-happens-at-the-end-of-trading-places
Melissa
January 15, 2014 at 10:31 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Ooooh! Thanks!