| Risky Business | | Cast : | Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay | | Director : | Paul Brickman | | Studio : | Warner Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | August 05, 1983 | | DVD Released Date : | June 07, 2005 | | Language : | Spanish (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 10, 2005 | | Summary | Master OF The Rare LASERDISCs Movies. | Content
 | No Doubt Risky Business was a great Movie back in 1983,I have it on LASERDISC And I bought it on dvd too,A MUST See for Tom Cruise's FANS :p |
| Rating | | | Date | June 11, 2005 | | Summary | 'Risky Business' (Warner Studios) Runiing time: 99 minutes | Content
| I remember seeing this movie when it first came to the theaters on Labor Day weekend '83.Saw the flick with two of my elderly aunts.I mean,how tacky is that?Loved seeing/watching this sex comedy again and again.Straight A student Joel(Tom Cruise)tries to avoid his annoying friend's advise on how to 'get lucky' with a hot girl from the newspaper's personal ads.But Miles(Curtis Armstrong-we know him as Booger from 'Revenge Of The Nerds')won't easily give up until he gets Joel a woman.Several twists and situations occur before Joel meets his dream girl,Lana(Rebecca De Mornay)and gets his first lay(memorable scene,by the way).Joel,Miles and Lana later end up in a car chase scene being pursued by Guido,the killer pimp(Joe Pantoliano)who turns out to be Lana's pimp.Just watch the movie,you'll be glad you did.If you can believe it,I still run into people who've NEVER even scene this or several other 'Blockbuster' movies. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 25, 2005 | | Summary | A star is born | Content
| I can say without hyperbole that this movie marked the stunning introduction of our generation's greatest actor. Not Tom Cruise, who would go on to such one-dimensional roles as an overcompensating F-14 pilot, nor the already well-established, and frequently partially clothed, Rebecca De Mornay. No, I am speaking of the great Curtis Armstrong, who captured the zegiest of the generation that came of age in the 1980s with his Risky Business coda, "Sometimes, you've just got to say what the f---." You see flashes of the brilliance that would later become abundant to all in his starring role as Booger, a cinematic Everyman in the second-greatest film trilogy in film history, the Revenge of the Nerds series, and in his later maturation into a serious dramatic actor, including such emotionally gripping roles as Drunkard #2 in Disney's Huckleberry Finn, which proved that 30 seconds of screen time is more than sufficient to carry a film. Admittedly, Risky Business has its share of trite dialogue and predictable plotting, but it's well worth sitting through it to see the origins of one of cinema's true masters. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 15, 2005 | | Summary | What's all the fuss about? | Content
| I ended up watching this movie on the TV the other night (quite late on, so it wasn't censored), and I'm so glad I didn't buy the DVD, cos although I managed to sit through the movie, it never really got going for me. It just seemed to plod along at it's own pace and never really got going. At least for me. I've heard it compared to (better) films like most recently, The Girl Next Door.
Tom Cruise didn't really convince that he was playing a teenager, and I can't figure out why either. The director tried to make him look more like a teenager, by making him work out 7 days a week in order to lose ten pounds. Once that had been accomplished, he immediately ceased working out and ate extremely fatty foods in order to add a layer of baby fat. This is how he achieved that "fresh-faced" teenage look. I'll agree that he did look fresh faced, but not enough to convince me. I just can't put my finger on it.
I liked Rebecca De Mornay in The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, and her practically brief appearance in Identity, but in this she was average. And for the guys, she appears briefly full frontal. Hasn't she had a bit of work done since then?!
For me, this film was well below average, and not worth watching at all. I'm so glad I didn't waste the money I didn't have on a DVD. Don't believe everything you hear. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 27, 2005 | | Summary | I may be looking too deeply into a movie but.... | Content
| I may be looking too deeply into a movie but....
I saw Risky Business when I was 13 and thought that although some parts were funny, it was filmed beautifully and the music was dreamlike to me. The film became more of a personal introspective when high school hit and I began to see the parallels between my life and this Joel character. I used to live in an upper middle-class suburban neighborhood while growing up; big yards, lots of trees, and yardwork that always needed to be done. While the folks were out of town on vacation and my brother was away on weekend with friends; was left at home to rake leaves, mow the grass, and do homework (or play tennis) on Friday and Saturday nights instead of dating, partying, and getting into trouble. Maybe you can identify.. My G-d though! Where was Rebecca De Mornay when I needed her back then??
I strongly believe that to call this movie just a mere comedy is a total disservice to the film's artistic elements. The way the camera focuses on the leaves blowing around in the yard as we see Joel looking around at all this d-mn work that needs to be done. The slow motion on the hose as he waters the plants, the love-making scene on the train, the train at night, and the instrumental music by TD. In my opinion, the term "Comedy" refers to films like Animal House or Caddyshack. Risky Business would be better compared to Solaris than it would either of those two.
The soundtrack will never be outdated as the "Love On A Real Train" main theme is still the best instrumental track I've ever heard (If you're a dreamer, then try listening to the soundtrack while you're doing your own yardwork and you might begin to look forward to those precious times of isolation and reflection).
If you like Risky Business, then check out Three O'Clock High as well. Different struggle, similar character, set to the serious background music of Tangerine Dream. Also dubbed as a comedy, but in my opinion, there are many undertones of drama interlaced.
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