This movie really had an impact on me. With a combination of talented actors, an interesting and relatable plot, and a kick-ass soundtrack, the movie creates an interesting feel and atmosphere. Risky Business' famous singing scenes and the actions and decisions that Joel Goodson undertakes (which i won't mention for fear of spoilers), can be relatable to any high school students ( particularly male in some scenes but maybe i'm being too assumptive). The performance of Cruise was excellent and very natural in his character. Like all good performances, you forget that the actor is acting. Also very interesting to see him playing a young student in the 1980's which totally contrasts to the action blockbuster movie making actor we depict him as nowadays. As well as that i must mention the beautiful Rebecca De Mornay who shines also in Risky Business. Her and Cruise's love story is not your typical run of the mill love story and their on-screen chemistry is believable and exciting to watch. I would advocate this film to anyone to watch. Its interest, thought provoking and certain scenes really broadened my mind. Its excellent.

Tom Cruise stars as Joel Goodson, a handsome young man from Chicago who takes advantage of his parents' house while they are away with things going way beyond what he had anticipated. Sure the plot of "Risky Business" about a promiscuous teenager befriending a likable hooker named Lana (Rebecca De Mornay) who's still not adjusted to the consequences that come with the job may have qualities about it that are quite surreal. In spite of the flaws in this movie, writer/director Paul Brickman does succeed to keep his audiences on the edge of their seats for long periods of time. Still relatively unknown at the time Tom Cruise in his most youthful role to date, plays a teenager plays the only son of wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Goodson (Nicholas Pryor and Janet Carroll) as they go off on sabbatical leave and depends on young Joel to watch over the house while they're gone. I mean what could go wrong? Joel's friend Miles (Curtis Armstrong) advises Joel to take advantage of his new found freedom. Joel starts drinking the liquor from the liquor cabinet, turns the stereo volume loudly as he dances in his underwear to a Bob Seeger classic and starts bringing in prostitutes into his house for his horny pleasures. From there this movie turns its gears to the over-romanticized soft-core erotic films with its target audience being middle-aged women. The whole concept of sex for money depicted here feels absurdly casual almost like a frat party where they play spin the bottle in hopes that the bottle points in their direction while they go off and engage in intercourse without any of them caring about the dangers of drugs or disease that could raise of cause of concern. Right before the AIDS epidemic took off, "Risky Business" would have never made to the cutting room floor. Lana (De Mornay) may have set the teen up in many of the troubles he faced while his parents were gone. Joel has successfully managed to drown his father's Porsche, and get under the gun of Lana's dangerous pimp Guido (Joe Pantoliano). Both incidents are proved costly, Joel agrees for one night to partner up with Lana as he turns his house into a brothel which will help pay for the repairs while he and his friends take their horny pleasures to Lana's co-workers.It's just strangely ironic that Joel found a new lease on coolness once he starts working off his payments by working as a pimp. He shapes his outlook by sporting his hair in the middle (typical 80's right?) He starts donning on Rayban Wayfarers sunglasses (which was a trend setter in that period) and though I don't approve it, he places a cigarette to his mouth that spells out Bogart and Belmondo. There's no real moral passage to give out here, but hey, it's the 1980's back when morals were looser than today's standards. The movie is really high on style and it stands above most romantic comedies of the 1980's and beyond, but to be honest, this movie wasn't a teen comedy at all. It's for satirical purposes to exploit the 1980's materialistic integrity that was cleverly incognito as a teen comedy film. The young cast who became bigger later on excelled in the material that was given to them (even Curtis Armstrong keeps himself being too much of an annoyance). Cruise and De Mormay strive from their roles as they avoid the trap of playing stereotypical characters mainly due to the precision and timing of Brickman's direction and script.

I honestly didn't realise Tom Cruise looked absolutely handsome when he was younger. There are scenes that can really confuse you like the girl he was hooking up wanted $300 and then when he couldn't get it and then he finds out who she was, she didn't want it. Also Guido takes his stuff and asks him for money, he probably should've called the police to be honest with you. I mean, it didn't make sense for him to be bribed like that, it really is stressful and dangerous for a young kid like him to be in that situation.Near the ending, when things were back to normal and in the right places, the mother was such a wimp just because there was a small crack on her glass egg. Such a stupid scene to have in this type of movie or even the script on that note was quite stupid! That's the only massive hiccup that cheesed me off with this film! Ill give this movie a 7/10, it was an OK film but that part I told ya about,threw me off a little bit....

It may be difficult for some, and for the younger ones the context is not there, but do you remember when Tom Cruise really gave a full PERFORMANCE? By this I mean in a movie where he had to play at a full range of emotions and explore a character who has to face real obstacles and has an arc that takes him on a journey from one place in his life to another - in this case the "coming of age" story, perhaps some pun intended- but one that didn't require him to run away from explosions or kill people (I won't say he doesn't run at all in this movie, though here it's for things like making sure he's not late to school)? This is one of them, the one that made him a star, and it's clear to see why as we see him as Joel start out in a rather simple position - a teenager with girls on his mind (or, more accurately, sex) but with some neuroses and doubts - and through some decisions involving the idea of "hey, f*** it" gets in way over his head.Risky Business is the kind of film that might not be able to get made today; imagine a studio exec hearing a pitch that involved a teenager getting a call girl, let alone setting up basically a (brief) brothel out of his house, to pay off some very bad luck moments and decisions he gets in to with the Rebecca Demornay character (and Joe Pantoliano, what a great heel he gets to play the hell out of! every moment's a delight that he's on screen). It probably would be laughed off, or told it wouldn't make much money. I'm glad someone took a chance on it at the time, since it holds up today. For the most part. As long as you meet it halfway, which isn't too hard. Indeed Brickman's tone as a filmmaker is to make things feel rather serious and grounded in the style so that when their is humor, and there's a lot, it comes out of awkward tension and behavior.It has a constantly fascinating mix of comedy and drama not unlike The Graduate. No, it's not in that league, but Brickman swings for the fences as far as depicting as honestly as he can under the circumstances he sets up for himself (which are a little just pre-John Hughes world, it IS Illinois by the way so the milieu is somewhat the same). You feel the struggle that Joel has, and hope that he can get out of his predicament, though at the same time he keeps getting into more precarious waters. It's relatable, especially if anyone ever got into just a little trouble as a younger person, which I assume are most of you. It's simply that Risky Business takes things further and further along.And it's sexy. Boy is it a sexy looking, sounding (Tangerine Dream's score is wonderful), and acted and performed. But it also finds the humor in sex too, how absurd it is to suddenly see about a dozen beautiful women come through a door, one by one. So if you want to see a studio dramedy that takes chances with an early Tom Cruise performance where he's acting his ass off, this is one. You have to suspend your disbelief, such as for how things like money transactions with prostitutes actually work and how it seems like ALL of the male high schoolers and ALL the attractive call girls just happen to be around and willing to go for it over one night), but as the film plays you really don't question things too much and can go with the fun and real *stakes* that this very R-rated story has.It's comical, thrilling, and it takes genuinely surprising turns that come naturally from plants and payoffs in the story. Risky Business is not at all what I expected, which was just some goofy and dopey teen comedy (the iconic, yes, iconic, shot of Tom Cruise in the underwear doing the first lip-sync battle with no one to Bob Seger was all I really knew about it), and what I got is a movie for adults that happens to have teenagers as the main characters.