Trading Places (1983)
A snobbish Wall Street commodities broker and a wily street hustler find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaire…
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John Landis
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Trading Places (1983) | Review by Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael’s review of TRADING PLACES sees John Landis’s comedy as rigid and dated, saved mainly by Eddie Murphy’s sharp energy and modern presence.
Trading Places (1983) | Review by Richard Schickel
Trading Places is one of the most emotionally satisfying and morally gratifying comedies of recent times. Eddie Murphy demonstrates the powers of invention that…
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) – Review by Pauline Kael
I didn’t expect (or want) Twilight Zone—The Movie to be Borgesian, but I did rather hope that John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, and…