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EDDIE MURPHY’s Eighties movie Trading Places is the inspiration for a new TV project. The Channel 5 show has the same name ...
Roughly 75% of Trading Places is set during Christmas time in chilly Philadelphia. (The other 25% runs from New Year’s Eve to January 2, with the final sequence on a tropical island taking place ...
The 1983 hit comedy ‘Trading Places’ turned 40 this year. Discover more fun facts about the John Landis-directed classic that helped turn stars Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd into household names.
Dan Aykroyd is looking back on what would now be considered controversial: his Blackface moment in Trading Places. “I was in Blackface in that film and I probably couldn’t get away with it now ...
'Trading Places' used Philadelphia as its backdrop in 1983. The holiday comedy starring Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis shot at the Community College of Philadelphia, which doubled ...
Jamie Lee Curtis says 'Trading Places' director John Landis 'stuck gum in my mouth every day' — giving her character a signature trait and helping to change the trajectory of her career.
Trading Places is a comedy set during Christmas rather than a Christmas comedy. There’s only a tangential relationship between the events on screen and living through the holiday season.