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Trading Places

Apex Mountain

Hoagie City; 1983 Philadelphia; Philadelphia films, qualified; commodities

In the discussion (11)
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  • Murphy’s peak is debated between Beverly Hills Cop and Coming to America rather than this film.
  • Landis receives a tentative yes, qualified as possibly the filming period because of the trial.
  • Aykroyd’s peak is placed at Ghostbusters.
  • Hoagie City receives yes.
  • Philadelphia’s 1983 peak is affirmed, with the nation’s founding as an exception.
  • Landis’s tentative peak is reconsidered against Coming to America, Animal House and the period after The Blues Brothers; no firm final choice emerges.
  • Ameche and Bellamy receive no.
  • Philadelphia films receive a qualified case for this film and the early 1980 s, with RockyIII, Blow Out, Creed and 12 Monkeys offered as comparisons.
  • Eating salmon in a Santa suit is met with a pass.
  • Gleason’s peak is placed at The Breakfast Club.
  • Commodities receive an affirmative choice, with frozen orange-juice trading singled out as a revelation.