Next month marks the 30th anniversary of the release of what is, in my opinion, one of the funniest films of all time: Trading Places.
Starring comedic demigods Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd, together with Jamie Lee Curtis and Denholm Elliot, this 1983 critical and commercial success is an amusing and trenchant satire on race, class, money and the whole American dream.
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