If a night on the town isn’t your forte, then a cozy night in with popcorn, pajamas and a vintage movie is your best bet.
When a wealthy investment executive and a homeless con artist reverse roles, it’s bound to be interesting.
In the 1983 comedy “Trading Places,” Billy Ray Valentine, played by Eddie Murphy, and Louis Winthorpe III, played by Dan Aykroyd, do just that. Winthorpe’s bosses at Duke Brother’s Wall Street firm place a low-money bet on whether or not Valentine and Winthorpe will prove to be a product of their environments if they switched lives.
Valentine soaked up Winthorpe’s lavish lifestyle while Winthorpe got demoted to the slums. Before long, however, the duo smartens up and attempts to seek revenge on the Duke brothers.
-Rita West
