Trading Places
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Jamie Lee Curtis
Director: John Landis
Year of release: 1983
Country: USA
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Plot summary
Aykroyd plays upper-crust commodity broker, Louis Winthorpe III, a successful and wealthy member of trading corporation Duke & Duke. After a small squabble between them, his employers, the Dukes, decide to place a bet that is is one's position in life that makes one a good person and another turn to crime.

To properly test their theories, they frame Loius for theft and drug possession, which cost him his job, his home, and his girlfriend, and lands him in the streets. Meanwhile, they stick in street hustler and petty conman Billy Ray Valentine in Louis' old place, with all the amenities that comes with the job.

Very funny and worth seeing if you like well made farces.

Rowing info
The very, very, very, very first shot of the film shows three rowing eights on the Schuylkill by Boathouse Row, as part of the "we're in Philadelphia" scene setting.

and that's about it.

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