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- Risky Business was released in the United States on August 5, 1983.
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The film is considered to be Cruise's breakout role . Risky Business was released in the United States on August 5, 1983. A commercial and critical success, the film grossed more than $63 million at the box office and received acclaim, with many comparing it to The Graduate (1967).
- $6.2 million
- Tangerine Dream
- August 5, 1983 (United States)
Aug 5, 1983 · Risky Business: Directed by Paul Brickman. With Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano, Richard Masur. A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.
- (97K)
- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Paul Brickman
- 1983-08-05
- AT ONE POINT THE MOVIE WAS TITLED WHITE BOYS OFF THE LAKE. Because the movie took place, and was partly filmed, in Chicago’s affluent Highland Park suburb, located along Lake Michigan, writer-director Paul Brickman (who grew up in Highland Park) told Salon that, "The working title was White Boys Off the Lake.
- IT WAS INSPIRED BY THE CONFORMIST. Brickman also told Salon that Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist was a huge influence on the film: “I thought, ‘Why can’t you present that as a film for youth and aspire to that kind of style and still have humor in it?’
- THE DIRECTOR WAS NOT INITIALLY SOLD ON TOM CRUISE. Cruise was filming The Outsiders in Tulsa, Oklahoma when he got the call to audition for Risky Business.
- CRUISE LOST WEIGHT IN ORDER TO LOOK MORE BABY-FACED. According to an interview with Cruise in a September 5, 1983 issue of People, Cruise “shed 14 pounds in five weeks by jogging in the Florida sun and strict dieting.
A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand. Trustworthy son Joel Goodsen, an industrious, college-bound Chicago high school senior struggling to live up to his parents' expectations, has more than enough on his plate. But when mum and dad go off on vacation, the ...
A sly piece of pop subversion, this irresistible satire of Reagan-era materialism features Tom Cruise in his star-is-born breakthrough as a Chicago suburban prepster whose college-bound life spirals out of control when his parents go out of town for the week and an enterprising call girl (Rebecca De Mornay) invites him to walk on the wild side. While Cruise boogying in his briefs yielded one ...
- Joel Goodsen
First name (Required) Last name ... David Denby New York Magazine/Vulture Risky Business, a movie about a nice ... Release Date (Streaming) Sep 1, 2008. Runtime 1h 36m.
- (50)
- Comedy
- R
Written by Wuchak on December 11, 2018. Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself.
