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Trading Places
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1204
- IMDb #1042
- Google retired #871
- Rotten Tomatoes #984
- Metacritic #1288
- Letterboxd #1719
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1386
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1105
- Metacritic Critics #1585
- Metacritic Audience #916
- Criticker #962
- Douban #1094
- Kinopoisk #944
- AlloCiné #2046
- Trakt #830
Every rating
A cruel bet is made by two immensely wealthy brothers. They arbitrarily decide to swap the lives of their managing director, a privileged and insufferable executive, with a street-smart hustler who is begging for change on the street. The executive is framed for a crime and stripped of his identity, while the beggar is given his job, home, and lifestyle. The experiment forces both men to experience a world utterly alien to them, leading them to discover a shared enemy in their manipulative benefactors.
Details
- Director
- John Landis
- Writers
- Herschel Weingrod, Timothy Harris
- Released
- 7 June 1983
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $15.0M
- Box office
- $90.4M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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Awards & nominations
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| 56th Academy Awards 1984 | Best Original Song Score | Elmer Bernstein | Nominee |
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