Trading Places is a 1983 film comedy directed by John Landis, in which two elderly millionaires arrange circumstances so a rich stockbroker swaps places with a street hustler.

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• Trading Places is briefly covered in Statler and Waldorf's "At the Movies" column in Muppet Magazine issue 3, after mentioning Dan Aykroyd's other movie that summer (Doctor Detroit). Statler quips, "I wish I could trade places with someone right now!"

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• Dan Aykroyd played Louis Winthorpe III
• Jim Belushi played Harvey
• Elmer Bernstein composed the score
• Bill Cobbs played a bartender
• Jamie Lee Curtis played Ophelia
• Barry Dennen played Dimitri
• Bo Diddley played a pawnbroker
• Giancarlo Esposito played a cellmate
• Richard Hunt played Wilson
• John Bedford Lloyd played Andrew
• John McCurry played a cop
• Eddie Murphy played Billy Ray Valentine
• Frank Oz played a corrupt cop
• Robert Paynter was director of photography