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‘Trading Places’ Co-Writer: Wall Street Movies Take Themselves Way Too Seriously

‘Trading Places’ Co-Writer: Wall Street Movies Take Themselves Way Too Seriously

It’s been 30 years since Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd starred in Trading Places, a hit comedy whose big climax involves trading a bunch of frozen concentrated orange juice futures, and you’d be hard-pressed to think of any films about high finance that treated the topic with a sense of humor (though there are certainly some laughable moments in the Wall Street sequel). This baffles the writer of the 1983 film. [More]