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Key Information
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| Directors: |
John Landis |
| Stars: |
Eddie Murphy |
| Actors: |
Jamie Lee Curtis |
| Genre: |
Comedies |
| Subgenre: |
Recommended · Vengeance · Switching Roles · Buddies · Big Business · Rags To Riches · Scams And Cons · Essential Cinema |
| MPAA Rating: |
R (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
VHS |
| UPC: |
097361223841 |
| Release Date: |
1983 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 58min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD, 1hr 56min
Release Company: Paramount Home Entertainment (September 24, 2002)
UPC: 097360155143 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 1hr 58min |
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Professional Reviews
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(08/01/2007, p.138, Adam Sweeting): 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's still funny and sharp-witted..." |
| More Information |
| Details: |
In this screwball comedy of manners, millionaire commodity brokers Randolph and Mortimer Duke (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) wager a bet that pits environment vs. biology and turns the lives of their two unsuspecting victims upside down. Eddie Murphy costars as Billy Ray Valentine, a streetwise hustler who gets dragged off the street and into the proper life of top Duke Bros. broker Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd), who in turn gets tossed out of his posh townhouse and onto the mean city streets. The comic team of Murphy and Aykroyd is deliriously funny as they both struggle to comprehend their new lives. Billy Ray is forced to learn proper etiquette, manners, and business sense while uptight Louis scrambles to make it on the streets, befriending a prostitute (Jamie Lee Curtis) who takes him in and saves him from starvation--or worse. When the two innocent victims realize the scheming brothers' plot, they unite and devise a fabulous revenge to prove that their lives can't be controlled by the power-grub... |
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