Trading Places (1983) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
Street hustler switched with Winthorpe in a nature vs. nurture wager. Learns the commodities business, survives framing attempts, and allies with Winthorpe to swap a fake USDA report. Executes a short...
Co-owner of Duke & Duke who partners with Randolph in the nature versus nurture wager. Blindsided by the protagonists' counter-scheme, he desperately demands the trading floor reopen but faces total a...
Winthorpe's loyal butler who continues serving Valentine after the switch. He helps recover Winthorpe after an overdose, pools his life savings with the others, and ultimately enjoys the beach vacatio...
A prostitute who assists the fallen Winthorpe in exchange for a future financial reward. She participates in nursing him back to health, helps execute the report swap, and shares a romantic moment wit...
A paid operative for the Dukes who frames Winthorpe and transports a classified USDA crop report. His plot is uncovered, he is subdued by a gorilla, dressed in a suit, caged, and shipped to Africa.
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Clarence Beeks is described as a man on the Dukes' payroll who frames the displaced executive and transports the classified crop report.
Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.
Coleman and Ophelia jointly nurse the overdosed man back to health and later pool their savings with the others for the trading plan.
Ophelia boards Beeks's train in disguise and is endangered when Beeks uncovers the report-switching scheme and attempts to kill the group.
Coleman is one of the four people who board Beeks's train, survive his attempted attack, and help restrain him after the gorilla knocks him unconsciou...
Ophelia helps restore the fallen executive, joins the report-switching operation, and contributes her life savings to the trading plan that Billy exec...
Coleman continues serving Billy after the life switch and later helps nurse the overdosed man back to health.
Clarence Beeks works for the Dukes, transports the secret crop report, uncovers Billy's train scheme, and attempts to kill the group.
Mortimer Duke joins the wager to test whether social environment or innate nature determines success. The experiment places Billy Ray Valentine in the...
A social experiment becomes a class reversal in which manipulated lives unite to defeat the people who engineered the exchange.
Directed by John Landis
Trading Places (1983) · 7.2/10 · comedy
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