Trading Places

“They're not just getting rich... They're getting even.”

Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd), a Philadelphia commodities broker, wants to climb higher into wealth and power. Two elderly tycoons, Randolph and Mortimer Duke (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche), engineer his spectacular fall: his life implodes, his money vanishes, and he finds himself on the street. John Landis orchestrates the chaos with the precision of a con man, turning each setpiece into pure spectacle.