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 |
Louis Winthorpe is a businessman who works for commodities brokerage firm of Duke and Duke owned by the brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke. Now they bicker over the most trivial of matters and what they are bickering about is whether it's a person's environment or heredity that determines how well they will do in life. When Winthorpe bumps into Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler and assumes he is trying to rob him, he has him arrested. Upon seeing how different the two men are, the brothers decide to make a wager as to what would happen if Winthorpe loses his job, his home and is shunned by everyone he knows and if Valentine was given Winthorpe's job. So they proceed to have Winthorpe arrested and to be placed in a compromising position in front of his girlfriend. So all he has to rely on is the hooker who was hired to ruin him. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com
John Landis has directed a brilliant original screenplay by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod.
Eddie Murphy is absolutely hilarious as a street hustler that was placed in the world of options trading by a couple of old farts who just like to bet with each other.
Of course on the opposite side, the real options trader, Dan Aykroyd, is dumped on the street.
Coming to save the day is Jamie Lee Curtis, who is funny and hot as a prostitute who feels sorry for Winthorpe (Ackroyd).
Denholm Elliott is positively lovable as the butler. Don Ameche and Ralph Bellemy play the betting Duke brothers.
SKIN-TASTIC Moment: In front of a mirror (and Dan Aykroyd) hooker- with-a-chest-of-gold Jamie Lee doffs her top and lets loose her magnificent money-markers in one of history's all-time hottest topless scenes.