The Late Show: Alt X-Mas

Also Friday, December 22 & Saturday, December 23

(1983) dir John Landis w/Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Denholm Elliott, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche [116 min; DCP]
In John Landis’ blockbuster comedy, Dan Aykroyd stars as a coddled Philadelphia financier whose life is upended when his scheming bosses, the Duke Brothers, arrange for him to lose everything in order to settle a bet about nature vs. nurture. He soon finds unlikely allies in a hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold (Curtis) and the street hustler (Murphy) that the Dukes have tapped to take his place.