In Trading Places Don
Amechi is Mortimer Duke and Ralph Bellamy is Randolph Duke. Together they are totally
gnarly super rich investors who play games with the human tragedy. They bet that a super rich associate
couldn’t make it as a poor man and that a poor man doesn’t have what it takes
to be a rich man.
Louis
Winthorpe III, Dan Aykroyd (Blues
Brothers, Ghost Busters, Dr. Detroit) is an up and coming yuppie investor
with a beautiful girlfriend and ultra yuppie frat boy friends. His world is
perfect until a well orchestrated game is played by the Duke brothers. Down on
his luck and out of money, he sees his world fall apart.
Billy Ray Valentine,
Eddie Murphy (Beverly Hills Cop, Coming
to America, The Golden Child) is a down on his luck super schemer whose
world suddenly changes when the Duke brothers replace Winthorpe with him. Suddenly rich and full of investment
opportunities, Valentine begins the investment game.
A series of events
brings the dejected Winthorpe and the newly minted investor Valentine together.
Both smelling the Duke’s rotten scheme, they come up with a plan to set things
right. They are helped along the way by a
prostitute with a good head for investing, played by teens scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween franchise), and the butler.
Will Winthorpe get his job back? Will the prostitute get off the streets?
Will Valentine have to go back to the streets? Find out these answers and more
in Trading Places.
