An armchair for two: plot, cast and streaming of the film
Tonight, Friday 24 December 2021, like every self-respecting Christmas Eve, on Italia 1 at 9.20 pm, Trading Places, a 1983 film by John Landis, starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy is broadcast and Jamie Lee Curtis. But let’s see all the information together in detail.
Plot
Louis Winthorpe III is a haughty “Philadelphia good” stockbroker whose life passes between fulfilling work, leisure with high-ranking friends, the love of beautiful but superficial Penelope and the services of the faithful butler Coleman, the only person with a good heart that animates his daily life. Billy Ray Valentine is a cheeky homeless man who begs by posing as a Vietnam veteran. The two lives accidentally cross each other on Christmas Eve following a street fight: Louis believes he is being attacked and asks for the intervention of the police, who arrest an incredulous Billy Ray. The episode is witnessed by Louis’ greedy employers, the brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke, and from this arises a dispute between the two about the motivations that push an individual to crime or success: Mortimer claims that some are genetically predisposed to delinquency or to success while Randolph is convinced that it is the environment in which one grows that determines a person’s actions. To verify their respective theses, they decide, in the face of a one dollar bet, to exchange the lives of Louis and Valentine with the complicity of an influential and corrupt government official, Clarence Beeks, and a reluctant Coleman: Billy Ray discovers to have an innate talent for finance while Winthorpe, convinced that he was framed by the one who took his place, seeks redemption in the eyes of the Dukes as well as revenge against Billy Ray; abandoned by his friends and Penelope, the only one to meet him is Ophelia, a young prostitute who had been hired by Beeks to discredit him and who now, feeling partly responsible, decides to help him.
An armchair for two: the cast of the film
We’ve seen the storyline of Armchair for Two, but what is the full cast of the film? Below is the list of actors with their respective roles:
- Dan Aykroyd: Louis Winthorpe III
- Eddie Murphy: Billy Ray Valentine
- Ralph Bellamy: Randolph Duke
- Don Ameche: Mortimer Duke
- Denholm Elliott: Coleman
- Jamie Lee Curtis: Ophelia
- Paul Gleason: Clarence Beeks
- Frank Oz: corrupt cop
- James Belushi: Harvey
- Bo Diddley: owner of a pawn shop
- Stephen Stucker: Stationmaster
- Kristin Holby: Penelope Witherspoon
- James Eckhouse: prison cop
Streaming and tv
Where to see Una armchair for two on live TV and live streaming? The film, as mentioned, will be broadcast tonight – 24 December 2021 – at 9.20 pm on Italia 1. It will also be possible to follow it in live streaming via the free platform MediasetPlay.it.
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