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Trading Places (1983)

Trading Places | United States of America
Genre
Comedy
IMDB
7.5 (129459 votes)
Budget
15,000,000.00$
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

Oscar and Lucinda (1997)

Oscar and Lucinda | United States of America| United Kingdom| Australia
Genre
Drama| Romance
IMDB
6.6 (6309 votes)
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.