Risky Business
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Paul Brickman
Produced by	Jon Avnet Steve Tisch The Geffen Company
Written by	Paul Brickman
Starring	Tom Cruise Rebecca De Mornay Joe Pantoliano
Music by	Tangerine Dream
Cinematography	Bruce Surtees
Editing by	Richard Chew
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	August 5, 1983
Running time	98 min.
Country
Language	English German
Budget	$6.2 million
Gross revenue	$63,541,777
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Risky Business is a 1983 comedy film written by Paul Brickman in his directorial debut. It is considered in retrospect to be the film that brought its male lead, Tom Cruise, to prominence.^[1] Image File history File links Risky_business. ... Jonathan Michael Avnet (born November 17, 1949) is an American director/writer/producer. ... Steven Steve Tisch is the chairman, executive vice president, and co-owner of the New York Giants, as well as a movie director. ... The Geffen Film Company was a motion picture distributor and production company founded by David Geffen. ... Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and film producer. ... Rebecca de Mornay (born August 29, 1959) is an American film and television actress. ... Joseph Peter Joe Pantoliano (born September 12, 1951)[1] is an Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor. ... Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. ... Bruce Surtees (27 July 1937, Los Angeles, California, USA) is an Academy Award and Emmy Award nominated American cinematographer best known for his extensive work in Clint Eastwood films, mostly westerns of the 1970s and early 1980s. ... “WB” redirects here. ... is the 217th day of the year (218th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... // February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Lets Spend the Night Together opens in New York North Americas Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi Tootsie Trading Places, starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy WarGames, starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy Superman III Flashdance Staying Alive Octopussy Mr. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... // February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Lets Spend the Night Together opens in New York North Americas Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi Tootsie Trading Places, starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy WarGames, starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy Superman III Flashdance Staying Alive Octopussy Mr. ... Comedy film is genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. ... Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and film producer. ...

The film also stars Rebecca De Mornay as Lana and Joe Pantoliano as Guido. It features Curtis Armstrong as Miles, Richard Masur as Rutherford, the Princeton University interviewer and Bronson Pinchot as Barry. Rebecca de Mornay (born August 29, 1959) is an American film and television actress. ... Joseph Peter Joe Pantoliano (born September 12, 1951)[1] is an Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor. ... Curtis Armstrong (born November 27, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan, USA) is an American actor. ... Richard Masur (born 20 November 1948, New York, New York) is an actor who has starred in over 80 movies during his career. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... Bronson Alcott Pinchot (born May 20, 1959) is an American actor. ...

Plot

Joel Goodsen (Tom Cruise) is a high school student who lives with his wealthy parents in the North Shore area of Chicago. His father wants him to attend Princeton University, so he participates in Future Enterprisers, an extracurricular activity in which students work in teams to create small businesses. Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and film producer. ... Historically, the North Shore referred to the area serviced by the now defunct Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad, which ran along Lake Michigans western shore between Chicago and Milwaukee from 1896 until 1963. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ...

When his parents go away on a trip, Joel lives it up at home. On the first night, he raids the liquor cabinet, plays the stereo loudly, and dances around the living room in his underwear. Another night, he races his father's Porsche 928, despite his parents' explicit instruction to drive only his mother's car. This article is about the auto company. ... The Porsche 928 is a grand tourer automobile made by Porsche AG of Germany from 1978 model year to 1995 model year, during which time it was one of their most expensive offerings. ...

The following day, his friend Miles (Curtis Armstrong) suggests that Joel contact a call girl for a "good time". Joel refuses, but Miles calls "Jackie" on his behalf and leaves Joel's address on the answering machine. Jackie (Bruce A. Young) turns out to be a tall, masculine black person (possibly a transvestite). Joel sends Jackie away, but before she leaves, she gives Joel the number for Lana, another prostitute, promising that she's what "every white boy off the lake wants". Curtis Armstrong (born November 27, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan, USA) is an American actor. ... Whore redirects here. ... Bruce A. Young (born April 22, 1956) is an American television and film actor, who is perhaps best known for his role as Capt. ... A male dressed as a female. ...

That night, Joel is unable to sleep and hesitantly calls Lana (Rebecca De Mornay). She visits him that evening. She is a stunning blonde. They spend a heated night together. Rebecca de Mornay (born August 29, 1959) is an American film and television actress. ...

The following morning, Lana asks Joel for $300. She agrees to wait while he goes to the bank to get the money; however, when he returns, Lana is gone, along with his mother's expensive crystal egg.

Joel and Miles go to a restaurant where Jackie says Lana will be. Joel sees Lana, but only waves at her before leaving. As they are leaving, Lana asks Joel for a ride. As they sit in the car, Joel demands the egg back in exchange for the ride. Lana agrees, but as the discussion continues, the car is approached by Lana's pimp, Guido (Joe Pantoliano), who pulls a gun. Joel (in his father's Porsche) is chased in his car by Guido, but eventually escapes. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Joseph Peter Joe Pantoliano (born September 12, 1951)[1] is an Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor. ...

The next morning, Lana tells Joel that the egg is with the rest of her stuff at Guido's. Joel lets Lana stay while he goes to school. When he returns, his friends are over, and Lana has invited another prostitute, Vicky, to stay. They agree that the stay is only temporary. Later Lana mentions to Joel that "we should get your friends and my friends together. We'd make a lot of money." Joel rejects the idea.

That night, Joel, Lana, Vicky, and Joel's friend Barry (Bronson Pinchot) go out. They get stoned, and while Vicky and Barry wander away, Joel and Lana talk. Joel says something that Lana takes as judgmental, and she leaves. Moments later, the pier on which Joel has parked collapses, and his father's Porsche falls into Lake Michigan. Bronson Alcott Pinchot (born May 20, 1959) is an American actor. ... Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America, and the only one located entirely within the United States. ...

Joel takes the car to a repair shop. Later he goes to school and argues with the school registrar that if his absence is labeled as unexcused, he will fail two midterms. The confrontation causes him to be punished with two weeks' detention and his expulsion from Future Enterprisers. Exasperated, he goes to visit Lana, and they are reunited. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Joel and Lana arrange a huge party, turning his parents' house into a brothel for a night. Joel describes arranging the event using the same terms as creating the product for his Future Enterprisers business. A brothel, also known as a bordello or whorehouse, is an establishment specifically dedicated to prostitution, providing the prostitutes a place to meet and to have sex with the clients. ...

The party is a huge success, and the house is packed with young men and prostitutes. However, Joel has forgotten that the interviewer from Princeton (Richard Masur) is still coming by to evaluate Joel. The interview is plagued by interruptions, and the interviewer does not seem impressed by Joel's resume, telling him: "You've done some solid work, but it's just not Ivy League now, is it?" Later, Joel gets a call from his parents, reminding him of their flight home. After the party, Joel and Lana go out and make love on the Chicago 'L'. Richard Masur (born 20 November 1948, New York, New York) is an actor who has starred in over 80 movies during his career. ... The L[1], variously, if perhaps incorrectly, styled L, El, EL, or L, is the rapid transit system that serves Chicago, Illinois in the United States. ...

The next morning, Joel finds his house has been burglarized. When he tries to call Lana, Guido answers. He tells Joel he that he will let him buy his furniture. Fortunately, Joel and his friends manage to get everything moved back in just as his parents walk in, though his mother notices a crack in her egg. Joel tries to make amends by doing some extra housework. While he is watering the lawn, his father appears and congratulates him: the interviewer was very impressed, and has indicated Joel will be accepted into Princeton.

Later, Joel meets Lana at a restaurant, and they speculate about their future. Joel asks Lana if everything had been a setup; she tells him it was not. As they walk, she tells him that she wants to keep on seeing him; he jokes with her that it will cost her, reenacting the earlier scene where Lana asks Joel for $300.

Cast

• Tom Cruise as Joel Goodsen
• Rebecca De Mornay as Lana
• Joe Pantoliano as Guido
• Curtis Armstrong as Miles
• Bronson Pinchot as Barry
• Richard Masur as Rutherford
• Nicholas Pryor as Mr. Goodsen
• Janet Carroll as Mrs. Goodsen
• Megan Mullally as Call Girl
• Bruce A. Young as Jackie

Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and film producer. ... Rebecca de Mornay (born August 29, 1959) is an American film and television actress. ... Joseph Peter Joe Pantoliano (born September 12, 1951)[1] is an Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor. ... Curtis Armstrong (born November 27, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan, USA) is an American actor. ... Bronson Alcott Pinchot (born May 20, 1959) is an American actor. ... Richard Masur (born 20 November 1948, New York, New York) is an actor who has starred in over 80 movies during his career. ... Nicholas Pryor (born 28 January 1935) is an American film and television actor. ... Megan Mullally (born November 12, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is a three-time SAG and two-time Emmy Award-winning Irish-American actress, talk show host, singer and comedian, best known for her role as Karen Walker on Will & Grace. ... Bruce A. Young (born April 22, 1956) is an American television and film actor, who is perhaps best known for his role as Capt. ...

Soundtrack

Main article: Risky Business (soundtrack)

The film score was by Tangerine Dream; their songs composed nearly half of the film soundtrack. Also included were songs by Muddy Waters, Prince, Jeff Beck, Journey, Phil Collins, and the song for which the film is best known, "Old Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Seger. A film score is a set of musical compositions written to accompany a film. ... Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. ... A film soundtrack is the music that is from or inspired by a feature film. ... McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1915 – April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered the Father of Chicago blues. He is also the actual father of blues musician Big Bill Morganfield. ... For other uses, see Prince (disambiguation). ... Geoffrey Arnold (Jeff) Beck (born June 24, 1944 to Arnold and Ethel Beck in Wallington, Greater London) is an English rock guitarist. ... Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco, California. ... For other uses, see Phil Collins (disambiguation). ... Old Time Rock and Roll is a song by Bob Seger featured in the 1978 album Stranger in Town. It is a nostalgic look at the music of a previous generation. ... Robert Clark Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American rock and roll singer-songwriter and musician. ...

The soundtrack album was released on Virgin Records, which was also Tangerine Dream's record company at the time the film was released. Virgin Records was a British recording label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, and Nik Powell in 1972. ... Tangerine Dream has released over one hundred albums (not counting singles, compilations and fan releases) over the last four decades. ...

The film also included "Hungry Heart" by Bruce Springsteen, and "Swamp" by Talking Heads (which includes the words "risky business" in the lyrics). The LP and CD versions of the soundtrack included two different versions of "Love on a Real Train (Risky Business)," neither of which matched the version used in the movie for the final love scene or closing credits. This article is about the Bruce Springsteen song. ... Springsteen redirects here. ... The Talking Heads was an American rock band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991. ... An LP Long playing (LP), either 10 or 12-inch diameter, 33 rpm (actually 33. ... CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s...

Reception

Janet Maslin, in her 1983 review of the film for The New York Times, called it "part satire, part would-be suburban poetry and part shameless showing off" and said the film "shows an abundance of style", though "you would be hard pressed to find a film whose hero's problems are of less concern to the world at large."^[2] She called De Mornay "disarming as a call girl who looks more like a college girl" and credits Cruise with making "Joel's transformation from straight arrow to entrepreneur about as credible as it can be made."^[2] Janet Maslin (b. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ...

Roger Ebert was much more positive, calling it a movie of "new faces and inspired insights and genuine laughs" and "one of the smartest, funniest, most perceptive satires in a long time" that "not only invites comparison with The Graduate, it earns it."^[3] He continued: Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... For the novel of the same name, see The Graduate (novel). ...

The very best thing about the movie is its dialogue. Paul Brickman, who wrote and directed, has an ear so good that he knows what to leave out. This is one of those movies where a few words or a single line says everything that needs to be said, implies everything that needs to be implied, and gets a laugh. When the hooker tells the kid, "Oh, Joel, go to school. Learn something," the precise inflection of those words defines their relationship for the next three scenes.^[3]

Variety said the film was like a "promising first novel, with all the pros and cons that come with that territory" and complimented Brickman on "the stylishness and talent of his direction."^[4] Variety is a daily newspaper for the entertainment industry. ...

In 2006, the film was 40th on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies; the magazine called the film a "sharp satire of privileged suburban teens" about the "soul-crushing pressure to be perfect."^[1][5] Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated EW) is a magazine published by Time Inc. ...

References and parodies

A scene featuring Cruise's character dancing in his pink dress shirt and briefs to Old Time Rock and Roll by Bob Seger has been referenced or parodied in episodes of a number of television series and movies: A man wearing ribbed briefs For other uses of Brief(s), see Brief Briefs are a type of short, tight Y-shaped underwear and swimwear, as opposed to styles where the material extends down the legs. ... Old Time Rock and Roll is a song by Bob Seger featured in the 1978 album Stranger in Town. It is a nostalgic look at the music of a previous generation. ... Robert Clark Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American rock and roll singer-songwriter and musician. ...

• Duckman episode "Apocalypse Not"
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, episode "The Philadelphia Story"
• King of the Hill, episode "Peggy the Boggle Champ"
• Briefly in the Kappa Mikey episode "Mikey Impossible"
• Lizzie Mcguire, Season one, episode 10
• The Lone Gunmen episode "Eine Kleine Frohike"
• The Nanny, episode "Canasta Masta"
• NewsRadio, episode "The Lam"
• Saturday Night Live, Season 11, episode 9 (hosted by Ron Reagan) and Season 19, episode 7 (hosted by Nicole Kidman)
• The Simpsons, episode "Homer the Heretic" (Homer Simpson dances in a similar fashion, though to a different song)
• South Park episode "The Wacky Molestation Adventure" (Kyle Broflovski dances to the same song in the same way after his parents are taken away)
• Doug
• Veronica Mars, episode "Ruskie Business" (which also features a character named "Tom Cruz")
• Scrubs episode My Identity Crisis, Dr. Cox, J.D., Turk, and The Todd dance in a very similar fashion.
• Alf episode 3 "Looking for Lucky".
• Married with Children Season 11 episode "Breaking up is Easy to Do, Part 2". (Al Bundy dances to the same song and in the same fashion after moving into his new apartment)
• Mrs. Doubtfire.
• The Office Season 2 episode 3, "Office Olympics". Michael Scott, making reference to Risky Business, instructs an employee to "take your pants off, run around."
• During the finale of season 7 of American Idol, finalists David Cook and David Archuleta appeared in separate identical commercials for the game franchise Guitar Hero, where they each parodied the scene by playing Guitar Hero III. However, Old Time Rock And Roll is not featured in the game.
• Writer Greg Hudock documented the history of the Porsche 928 from Risky Business in the August 2007 issue of Excellence (magazine).

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• Episode 218 of The O.C. (called "The Risky Business") also references the film. The episode's plot involves a crystal egg being stolen (supposedly the same prop egg that was used in 'Risky Business'); the rest of the episode is centered on the characters trying to get back the egg. The episode also includes a remake of the film's "throwing the egg like a football" scene. A song from the Risky Business soundtrack, Tangerine Dream's "Love on a Real Train", is also heard during the episode.

The O.C. was an American teen drama television series that originally aired on FOX in the United States , and in Canada On CTV Television Network from August 5, 2003, to February 22, 2007, running a total of four seasons. ... The Risky Business is the 45th episode of the FOX television series, The O.C.. The episode was written by Cory Martin and was directed by Norman Buckley. ... A film soundtrack is the music that is from or inspired by a feature film. ... Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. ...

References

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated EW) is a magazine published by Time Inc. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ... Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... Variety is a daily newspaper for the entertainment industry. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

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