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One sheet Trading Places
is a 1983 American comedy film starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. The film was directed by John Landis and also features Jamie Lee Curtis, Ralph Bellamy, and Don Ameche.
The plot revolves around two wealthy, greedy brothers who own a brokerage firm and make a bet on whether a person's environment or heredity determines their success in life. To settle the bet, they arrange to have an upper-class commodities broker, Louis Winthorpe III (Aykroyd), trade lives with a poor street hustler, Billy Ray Valentine (Murphy).
The film was a box-office success, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1983 in the U.S. and Canada. It is widely considered one of the best comedy films and Christmas films ever made. In 2010, the film was referenced in Congressional testimony regarding new financial market regulations designed to prevent the type of insider trading depicted in the movie. The "Eddie Murphy rule" was a provision in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act intended to prevent the insider trading demonstrated in the film. |
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