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Risky Business. Risky Business is a 1983 American coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by Paul Brickman (in his directorial debut) and starring Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay. It follows the sexual exploits of a high school senior during his parents' vacation trip. The film is considered to be Cruise's breakout role .
- $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
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
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Risky Business (1983) Rated R. "Risky Business" is a movie about male adolescent guilt. In other words, it's a comedy. It's funny because it deals with subjects that are so touchy, so fraught with emotional pain, that unless we laugh there's hardly any way we can deal with them -- especially if we are now, or ever were, a teenage boy.
David Denby New York Magazine/Vulture Risky Business, a movie about a nice boy losing his virginity, is a first-time director's clear failure that I normally wouldn't get belligerent about, but ...
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- Comedy
- R
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 ...
