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Trading Places

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/June 8, 2023 by Wehwalt (talk) 13:55, 28 April 2023 (UTC)



Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis. The plot focuses on a commodities broker (played by Dan Aykroyd) and a street hustler (played by Eddie Murphy, pictured) who are the subject of a bet to test how each man will perform when their lives are swapped. Trading Places become the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1983 in the United States and Canada and received generally positive reviews, with critics praising the cast and the film's revival of the screwball comedy genre. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Score and won two BAFTA awards. The film has been praised as one of the greatest comedy films and Christmas films ever made, but retrospective assessments have criticized its use of racial jokes and language. In 2010, the film was referenced in Congressional testimony concerning the reform of the commodities trading market designed to prevent the insider trading demonstrated in Trading Places.
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 * Main editors: was the FAC nominator
 * Promoted: November 5, 2020
 * Reasons for nomination: 40th anniversary of the film's release. It would be great to have both Aykroyd and Murphy in the image slot but I am not sure how/if that this possible.
 * Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 17:17, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:32, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Support Darkwarriorblake / Vote for something that matters 21:22, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Support – zmbro (talk) (cont) 21:24, 12 April 2023 (UTC)