“Trading Places” quotes
(1983)
Title Trading Places
Year 1983
Director John Landis
Genre Comedy
Year 1983
Director John Landis
Genre Comedy
Plot – Randolph and Mortimer Duke are two financiers of Philadelphia. Louis Winthorpe III, the manager of their company, is engaged to their grand-niece Penelope. When the two meet Valentine, a poor man, they decide to make an experiment: the homeless will live at Winthorpe's and will do his job, while Louis will end on the road, abandoned to himself.
All actors – Denholm Elliott, Dan Aykroyd, Maurice Woods, Richard D. Fisher Jr., Jim Gallagher, Anthony DiSabatino, Bonnie Behrend, Sunnie Merrill, James Newell, Mary St. John, Bonnie Tremena, David Schwartz, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Tom Degidon, William Magerman, Alan Dellay, Florence Anglin, Ray D'Amore, Bobra Suiter, Herb Peterson, Sue Dugan, Walt Gorney, B. Constance Barry, P. Jay Sidney, Eddie Murphy, Avon Long, Tom Mardirosian, Charles Brown, Robert Curtis Brown, Nicholas Guest, John Bedford Lloyd, Tony Sherer, Robert Earl Jones, Robert E. Lee, Peter Hock, Kristin Holby, Clint Smith, Ron Taylor, James D. Turner, Giancarlo Esposito, Steve Hofvendahl, James Eckhouse, Paul Gleason, Gwyllum Evans, Frank Oz, Eddie Jones, John McCurry, Michelle Mais, Barra Kahn, Bill Cobbs, Joshua Daniel, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jacques Sandulescu, W.B. Brydon, Margaret H. Flynn, Kelly Curtis, Tracy K. Shaffer, Susan Fallender, Bo Diddley, Alfred Drake, Lucianne Buchanan, Paul Garcia, Jed Gillin, Jimmy Raitt, Kate Taylor, Philip Bosco, Bill Boggs, James Belushi, Deborah Reagan, Al Franken, Tom Davis, Don McLeod, Stephen Stucker, Richard Hunt, Paul Austin, John Randolph Jones, Jack Davidson, Bernie McInerney, Maurice Copeland, Ralph Clanton, Bryan Clark, Gary Howard Klar, Afemo Omilami, Shelly Chee Chee Hall, Donna Palmer, Barry Dennen, Murray Bandel, George Folsey Jr., John Landis, Charles Pendelton, Yvonna Russell, Arleen Sorkin, Ronald Sylvers
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“- Coleman: Would you like a sip of whiskey?
- Billy Ray Valentine: I do not drink, it is against my religion!
- Coleman: Religion is a good thing I say, taken in moderation.”“- Billy Ray Valentine: That was a cheap vase, right? That was a fake? Right?
- Randolph Duke: I believe we paid $35,000. But if I remember correctly, we valued it for the insurance company at $50,000. You see, Mortimer? William has already made us $15,000.”“- Randolph Duke: Money isn't everything, Mortimer.
- Mortimer Duke: Oh, grow up.
- Randolph Duke: Mother always said you were greedy.
- Mortimer Duke: She meant it as a compliment.”“Those men wanted to have sex with me!”
“It occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people.”
“- Randolph Duke: That man is a product of a poor environment. There's nothing wrong with him, I can prove it.
- Mortimer Duke: Of course there's something wrong with him... he's a Negro!”
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