Trading Places  | |
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| German Title | Die Glücksritter |
| Year | 1983 |
| Length | 116 min |
| Genre | Komödie |
| Director | John Landis |
| Author | Timothy Harris |
| Cast | Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Denholm Elliott, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Maurice Woods, Richard D. Fisher Jr., Jim Gallagher |
| Plot (German) | Die Gebrüder Duke steinreiche Warentermin Börsenmakler, schließen eine Wette über einen US-Dollar ab. Es geht darum, ob Erfolg im Leben von den Genen oder der Erziehung und dem Umfeld abhängt. Dazu tauschen sie das Leben des Bettlers Billy Ray Valentine mit dem ihres Geschäftsführers Louis Winthorpe aus. Sie schieben dem High-Society-Manager Drogen unter und lassen ihn wegen angeblichen Diebstahls verhaften. |
| Plot (English) | 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. |
| Origin | USA |
| Awards | Nominiert für 1 Oscar. Außerdem weitere 3 Auszeichnungen & 4 Nominierungen. |
| IMDb Rating | 7,5  |
