Risky Business
A suburban Chicago teenager's parents leave on vacation, and he cuts loose. An unauthorised trip in his father's Porsche means a sudden need for lots of money, which he raises in a creative way.
9 October 1949, Hartsdale, New York, USA
26 April 1942, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
23 July 1953, Kankakee, Illinois, USA
26 May 1957, Dupo, Illinois, USA
29 August 1959, Santa Rosa, California, USA
17 August 1960, Santa Monica, California, USA
7 February 1965, Chicago, Illinois, USA
27 November 1953, Detroit, Michigan, USA
12 February 1964, New York City, New York, USA
18 January 1925, Chicago, Illinois, USA
6 September 1953, New York City, New York, USA
28 January 1935, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
15 October 1960, Chicago, Illinois, USA
27 July 1910, Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 January 1940
July 31, 2013
Writer/director Paul Brickman has honed a sharp satire on American go-getting here.
August 06, 2007
One of the finest film explorations of the end of innocence.
May 20, 2003
[The film] improves as it goes along.
August 11, 2010
It's sexy, smart and funny, but also stylish and filled with social satire and commentary on the culture of money.
April 10, 2016
... you could call it an art movie version of the teen sex comedy.
April 30, 2009
For writer/director Paul Brickman, this was a case of being in the right place at the right time and, perhaps most importantly, getting the right leading man in place.
August 06, 2007
Writer-director Paul Brickman can therefore be accused of trying to have it both ways, but there's no denying the stylishness and talent of his direction.
July 31, 2013
As adolescent adventures go, Risky Business is an invigorating, first-class affair: It manages to make coming of age a witty proposition.
September 28, 2008
It's easy to forget the idiosyncracies of a film that so successfully trades on adolescent male fantasies and nightmares. [Blu-ray]
October 23, 2004
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.
July 16, 2009
A capitalist wet dream; one that we have long since woken up from screaming.
February 09, 2006
What distinguishes it, however, is that it's hovering permanently on the brink of stark, staring disaster in a way that strangely recalls The Graduate.
