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Overview

User Rating:
7.4/10   28,168 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Timothy Harris (written by) &
Herschel Weingrod (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
8 June 1983 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
They're not just getting rich... They're getting even. more
Plot:
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations more
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(45 articles)
User Comments:
Ahmwoonanawoonanawoonana-huh! more (114 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Denholm Elliott ... Coleman

Dan Aykroyd ... Louis Winthorpe III
Maurice Woods ... Duke & Duke Employee
Richard D. Fisher Jr. ... Duke & Duke Employee
Jim Gallagher ... Duke & Duke Employee
Anthony DiSabatino ... Duke & Duke Employee

Bonnie Behrend ... Duke & Duke Employee
Sunnie Merrill ... Duke & Duke Employee
James Newell ... Duke & Duke Employee (as Jim Newell)
Mary St. John ... Duke & Duke Employee
Bonnie Tremena ... Duke & Duke Employee
David Schwartz ... Duke & Duke Employee
Ralph Bellamy ... Randolph Duke

Don Ameche ... Mortimer Duke
Tom Degidon ... Duke Domestic
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Additional Details

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Black or White (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
118 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The electronic status board at Duke & Duke's (seen prominently in the Christmas scene) is the "Big Money" board from "Family Feud" (1976). more
Goofs:
Factual errors: When Winthorpe is in the cab and Valentine is in the limo and they see each other, the street they are on, outside Independence Hall, is two-way traffic. This was only done for the movie. In real life, this is a one way street heading east. You can see the white lines on the street dividing the travel lanes, rather than a double yellow line which would be needed for it to be denoted as a two-way street. more
Quotes:
Louis Winthorpe III: [to Penelope] Those men wanted to have sex with me! more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "ER: Foreign Affairs (#9.20)" (2003) more
Soundtrack:
GET A JOB more

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29 out of 34 people found the following comment useful.
Ahmwoonanawoonanawoonana-huh!, 17 April 1999
10/10
Author: Shawn Watson (gator_macready@yahoo.com) from The Underverse

This is one of the best comedies out there, made back in the days when John Landis was still good. It is bursting with brilliant scenes for fans to act out and loads of hilarious lines to recite. I find myself doing this quite a lot. Who cannot resist Eddie Murphy's foreign exchange student disguise or Ackroyd's Lionel Josef. The ape in the train is a thigh-slapper too.

For a comedy it has a great plot and a decent running time but it has dated quite a bit. Please though, no remake. Let this film stand on it's own as proof that Ackroyd, Murphy and Landis were once brilliant at what they did.

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