TY - BOOK AU - Landis , John AU - Harris, Timothy AU - Weingrod, Herschel TI - Trading places U1 - 791.4372 22 PY - 1983/// CY - Mumbai PB - Reliance Home Video KW - American comedy film, commodities broker, Drama, poor street hustler, bet to test how each man will perform when their life circumstances are swapped N1 - Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis, with a screenplay by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod. Starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis, the film tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker and a poor street hustler whose lives cross when they are unwittingly made the subject of an elaborate bet to test how each man will perform when their life circumstances are swapped. Harris conceived the outline for Trading Places in the early 1980s after encountering two wealthy brothers who were engaged in an ongoing rivalry with each other. He and his writing partner Weingrod developed the idea as a project to star Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder UR - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/ ER -