Why wallow in financial frustration when you can watch cinema that stimulates economic inspiration? Or at least helps soothe some of your mortgage-crisis-induced malaise with a strong dose of comic therapy.

The package: Trading Places
A financial fairytale of two Wall Street ogres, brothers Randolph and Mortimer Duke, who, bored with their billions-making, decide to gamble with the futures of two ordinary men -- their brokerage employee Louis Winthrope III (Dan Aykroyd) and street hustler Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy). Investing in the latter, and unscrupulously unloading the former to prove or disprove their opposing opinions of the notion of "nature vs. nurture," they plummet unjustly unemployed Louis into the depths of suicidal despair and desperate depravity, whilst they elevate Valentine to new economic heights as a successful swami of stock futures. All this takes place with no risk to the Duke brothers or their bulging bank accounts.

But never fear, this tale of evil vs. good Wall Street wizardry has a happy ending that will turn your financial frown upside down (or at least tickle it into a less depressed smirk), as Ray, Louis and Louis's hooker (Jamie Lee Curtis) ultimately turn the tables on the bad old Duke boys, and celebrate their business triumph with a corporately lavish tropical getaway bonus.

What this package includes:

*Immediate comic relief for anyone recently dumped by an employer or for those who are simply down in the dumps due to the economy's downward slide.

*Improved mood and increased inspiration for those who've suffered from the money-minded speculation of others.

*Help for individuals in need of viable employee revenge strategies

And, of course, something for the laid-off to do when not hatching job-networking schemes ("I'll tattoo my resume on my chest and stand on a street corner!"), playing Wii games in their underwear, or throwing darts at headshots of bank executives. Not that I know anyone who does any of the above.

Warning: Language

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