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Risky Business
: An absolute classic in every way. Superb direction, cinematography, acting, music, editing. Near if not perfect film making. If this movie isn't a classic then nothing is.
Joel Goodson (Tom Cruise) is a high school senior who is already half-way to an ulcer from anxiety about future success. He stresses about his SAT scores, his performance as a Future Enterpriser, and getting into a good college. His friends urge him to lighten up; he tries to do so while his parents are away on a trip, and the result is a life-changing experience for him. This is not only a very funny film, but it is also very insightful and subversive about the get-ahead-quick, materialistic mentality that lies behind the kind of uber-businessmen that began coming up in the 80s and have enriched all of our lives so much with shenanigans such as the Enron debacle. Cruise's character goes from an innocent kid who believes that the key to success is hard work and preparation to one who realizes that a clever opportunist with a smooth line of BS is the one who will really come out at the head of the pack. Excellent work from the supporting cast as well as writer/director Paul Brickman.
What a wonderful movie, and a real treat to see it in letterbox. I just wish they had done a better job on the transfer. I have a real big tv and I'm pretty picky, so factor that into my review. But there were some noticable artifacts in the picture. A shame. But still worth every penny and a world better than a pan-and-scan VHS tape...
One of the better teenage movies of the 1980's. What impressed me most is the story is so real & probably a part of everyone's lives. Tom Cruise is an innocent teenager, who is forced by his friends to take advantage of his parents' absence from home & invites a call-girl over. What starts off as an interesting night for Cruise slowly turns into a nightmare. He runs his Dad's priceless Porsche into Lake Michigan by carelessness, gets suspended from college & gets very close to a real-life debt situation ! Rest of the film is seen Cruise straightening his life along with little or no help from his buddies. The film often highlites the phrase - What the heck ? Take some chances in life....Be a future enterpriser, signalling the need to use every given opportunity that life offers into a money making investment. Joe Pantoliano shines as Guido the killer pimp. Kurt Masur also excels as the bewildered school correspondent who comes to interview Cruise. The film scores in almost all departments - Editing, Screenplay, Direction & an excellent score by Tangerine Dream. They provide a very haunting score titled 'Love on a Real Train, wherein we see Tom Cruise making love to Rebecca De Mornay in Chicago's EL train late @ nite when none is aboard the train. The producers could re-release the film with a 5.1 DD soundtrack that could certainly enhance the film's outlook even more.
This is one of the best films of the early 1980's! I was a teenager at the time, and remember thinking this was the best movie, and that Tom Cruise was SO cool! I wanted to be like that! The film has an excellent story, and is very erotic! I like the DVD version, it has excellent video, and audio! "Risky Business," has an excellent soundtrack, also! Yes, this is the film of Tom Cruise's where he slides out onto the living room floor(while his parents are away)in his socks, shirt, and underwear and dances to "Old Time Rock and Roll! " I think that's a classic scene, and worth the price of the DVD just to see Tom Cruise dance in his underwear! I don't think any guy fills out his white underwear quite like Tom Cruise! A must see film, and a must to own! Buy It! :-)
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