RANDOLPH AND MORTIMER DUKE | TRADING PLACES (1982)
The story: Two affluent, old-money, Philadelphia investment banker racists — sorry, that’s redundant — make a bet that they can turn a small-time criminal into a successful investor prodigy, and vice versa.
Rangel says: “Give them credit for risk-taking. Even though their motives and methods were less than pure, they took a gamble.”
