Risky Business

RISKY BUSINESS (18)

D: Paul Brickman

Warner Bros/Geffen (Steve Tisch & Jon Avnet)

US 1983

99 mins

Comedy

W: Paul Brickman

DP: Bruce Surtees

Ed: Richard Chew

Mus: Tangerine Dream

Tom Cruise (Joel Goodson), Rebecca de Mornay (Lana), Joe Pantoliano (Guido), Richard Masur (Rutherford), Bronson Pinchot (Barry), Curtis Armstrong (Miles Dalby), Nicholas Pryor (Mr. Goodson), Janet Carroll (Mrs. Goodson)

While his parents are away on business, rebellious adolescent Joel indulges himself with all the things his parents have made taboo. He messes with the graphic equaliser to listen to rock music at full volume, he drives around in his father's beloved Porsche, he drinks copious amongst of alcohol, has sex with a prostitute and turns his folks' house into a brothel so he can make a mint off his high school mates.

This seminal teen comedy of the 1980's did absolute wonders for the profile of it's main star, inspiring a cluster of similar films, as well as an advert for business directory Yellow Pages (you'd have to have been about during the 1980's to remember that one).

8/10