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Trading Places

Trading Places is a great film directed by John Landis. The plot of Trading Places is Louis Winthorpe and Billy Ray Valentine switch places. Winthorpe lives in the ghetto and Billy Ray moves into Winthrop's house and gets his job.
Louis Winthorpe III is a successful New York commodity broker and Billy Ray Valentine is a homeless beggar. Mortimer and Randolph Duke are commodity brokers who enjoy making different kinds of bets all the time. For the latest one Randolph bets that they can take a common criminal and make him a successful businessman and to see if Louis Winthorpe will turn into a criminal once he's lost his mansion and all of his money. The criminal who will replace Winthrop's job and home will be Billy ray Valentine. Winthorpe is set up for drug possession and for crimes he didn't commit.
When they both switched each other lifestyles Billy Ray started to act responsible towards his new home. He acted no differently than anyone else of wealth......

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