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Risky Business
Directed by Paul Brickman
Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself. After an unfortunate incident with the Porsche Joel must raise some cash, in a risky way. From TMDB
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Risky Business is a 1983 romance comedy drama film, directed by Paul Brickman, starring Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay and Joe Pantoliano.
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60 of 207 · most liked firstI never thought it possible, but as the movie Risky Business taught us, sometimes you just have to say "What the fuck!" I agree with Laura Loomer.
neutral · AI labelView post →Any fans of the 1983 film Risky Business?
neutral · AI labelView post →I think I’ve raised my film cred with my son because I’ve shown him The Exorcist, Midsommar, Midnight Run, In Bruges, Risky Business, Rear Window, Tootsie and Rosemary’s Baby. Now I have to use that goodwill to show him Singing In The Rain and any movie made pre-1950.
positive · AI labelView post →Happy birthday to Blue Velvet, a movie that dared to ask “what if Risky Business happened to an autistic man”
neutral · AI labelView post →This evening’s film was Risky Business. How has nobody ever mentioned to me how Taylor Swift stole her entire look from Rebecca De Mornay in this film? boxd.it/e6l1or
neutral · AI labelView post →Have written a bunch about movies the last few days, including recent Criterion purchases and new stuff like Inland Empire, Saturday Night, CONCLAVE (an iconic catty Pope movie), Risky Business and more boxd.it/1fd7f
neutral · AI labelView post →I just acted out that scene from Risky Business where Tom Cruise eats an entire meatloaf and passes out cold. It was cut from the film.
neutral · AI labelView post →OTD 8/5/83: Paul Brickman's RISKY BUSINESS premiered making Tom Cruise star. For my generation, movie was rite of passage! *Sometimes you just have to say, "What the fuck?" *Porsche, there is no substitute. *I've got a trig midterm tomorrow, & I'm being chased by Guido the Killer Pimp! #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →just saw American Gigolo for the first time. another ‘80s movie, like Risky Business, that’s nothing like i’d been led to believe by its popular reputation. so strange and languid and good.
positive · AI labelView post →I can never tell if these are a.i. anymore but I got a pretty funny comment on an old RISKY BUSINESS review. (If this is a person I wish they knew how many times and in how much detail I've gone into my hatred of that song.)
neutral · AI labelView post →"Who's the U-boat commander?" - Chicagoland-set film "Risky Business," 1983 CDOT has a new site where you can report flooded bikeways. "This will help us track which bike lanes experience the worst flooding and are most regularly flooded." airtable.com/app2kZnzP9be...
neutral · AI labelView post →Puppy dog eyes.) Anyway, the 1st time Steve got to choose the movie, it was Risky Business. the 2nd time was Top Gun. The third time it was his turn to choose, Eddie expressed reservations bit Steve promised that everyone would love the movie he had it mind. "I promise, no Tom Cruise in this one."
neutral · AI labelView post →#MyYearInMix #MusicChallenge 1983 - Day 28. Tangerine Dream - "Love on a Real Train." A trio of consecutive soundtrack songs starts with RISKY BUSINESS, the film that made Tom Cruise a star. youtu.be/zARRwC1Dn74
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s the fortieth (!) anniversary of RISKY BUSINESS (!) and I wrote about what a quietly subversive gem of a movie it is for the @thebulwark.bsky.social. Hope you enjoy it! https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/risky-business-movie-that-made-tom-cruise
positive · AI labelView post →OTD 8/5/83: Paul Brickman's RISKY BUSINESS premiered making Tom Cruise star. For my generation, movie was rite of passage! *Sometimes you just have to say, "What the fuck?" *Porsche, there is no substitute. *I've got a trig midterm tomorrow, & I'm being chased by Guido the Killer Pimp! #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched the Criterion edition of Risky Business, specifically the director's cut. Damn, that film holds up well as a perfectly constructed fable about the 1980s.
positive · AI labelView post →#DavidsMonthOfMusic 10 With A Mode Of Transport In The Title Second instrumental in a row. Love On A Real Train featured in the film Risky Business but I first became aware of it through various blissed out Ibiza compilations in the late 90s where it fitted in perfectly. youtu.be/uG7eRgTwkck
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's classic 80s film. Young Tom Cruise in Risky Business. It's a classic for sure #80s #1980sfilm #filmsky #riskybusiness #tomcruise #genx
positive · AI labelView post →Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay arrive for a screening of their movie, Risky Business, at the Director’s Guild in Hollywood, California in 1983.
neutral · AI labelView post →Love On A Real Train -DJ Thor & Tony Corizia You might remember this from the movie, Risky Business. youtu.be/5_uiRM4XCxk?...
neutral · AI labelView post →‘The Fury’ was one of the first movies in the late 1970’s to be filmed in Chicago right before the Blues Brothers and early 1980’s films like My Bodyguard, Risky Business and explosion of John Hughes films made in and around Chicago. The city’s film department is awesome. #TCMParty #TheFury
neutral · AI labelView post →#CarlsChallenge #MusicChallenge #MusicSky September 30 Song you heard for the first time in a movie. Great movie songs📽️🍿 A fave scene, Bob Seger, Old Time Rock And Roll (Risky Business): www.youtube.com/watch?v=8elA...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the movie Risky Business this afternoon. 😎 Also, Snot from American Dad is in this too.
neutral · AI labelView post →Which two, because you won't really get how he became a movie star if you don't watch the from the 80s that did it. Risky Business, Color of Money, Rain Main, Born on The Fourth of July
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't think my opinion of Cruise could get any lower than it has always been. Last good movie he made, imo, was Risky Business. He's not really an actor--he's just good at playing Tom Cruise (and don't get me started on his thinking he was an appropriate Reacher.)
positive · AI labelView post →#MovieHistory On this day, 1983, the pop-culture landmark Risky Business was released. Directed by Paul Brickman, the film transformed 21-year-old Tom Cruise from a promising young actor into a major Hollywood star. Oscar-winning actor Timothy Hutton turned down the role of Joel Goodson.
neutral · AI labelView post →Time for another #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched! The Furious was phenom, and Hundreds of Beavers remains incredible. Normal is a great movie if you liked Nobody. Lastly, Adventures In Babysitting, a coming-of-age Chicago film that pales compared to Risky Business and Ferris Bueller IN MY OPINION
positive · AI labelView post →#AprilFilmChallenge #MovieSky Day 17 First R - rated film seen Risky Business Underage and we didn't even sneak in. Just bought the tickets-they didn't care.
neutral · AI labelView post →🌕 COMM | Risky Business I happily welcomed the challenge to take on a fun furry spin of the iconic movie poster #nsfw #furryart #art
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy National Film Score Day! Three of my favorite scores (in no particular order): Raiders of the Lost Ark by #JohnWilliams (1981), Risky Business by #TangerineDream (1983), Blade Runner by #Vangelis (1982 film release, 1994 official soundtrack release). #80smovies
neutral · AI labelView post →#FebruaryMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky 2. Scam or con in a movie Risky Business (1983) dir. Paul Brickman
neutral · AI labelView post →North Dakota State using the Risky Business movie poster font to intimidate opponents, amazing
neutral · AI labelView post →MEN DON'T LEAVE (which I have been meaning to see for years) was on one of the free WB streaming movie channels this morning -- what a charming little picture! It's a real damn shame Paul Brickman only ever directed this + RISKY BUSINESS, he had such a unique + specific eye towards human stories.
positive · AI labelView post →We all remember Paul Brickman’s funny film debut Risky Business with Tom Cruise’s star-making performance. But .... Freeline Media critic @milanpaurich.bsky.social thinks there’s another Brickman film that has even stronger lasting artistic value. Read on! freelinemediaorlando.com/movie-talk-t...
neutral · AI labelView post →Our GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC conversation with John Malahy on RISKY BUSINESS, released on this day in 1983: www.youtube.com/watch?v=saVw... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
neutral · AI labelView post →"Risky Business" is not only the best Tom Cruise movie, but a top-5 80s movie in general
positive · AI labelView post →Many people were introduced to TD with their film soundtracks (Risky Business, Sorcerer, Thief). If you want to dig deeper, Tangram is really great, from the same time period. Album of the Day Tangram - Tangerine Dream (1980) #RockSolidAlbumADay2026 #MusicSky #vinylrecords 072/365
neutral · AI labelView post →It's so weird to me (but good for them) how minor actors in big movies from the 80s are still around and thriving. Of course you know Curtis (Booger) but the guy in the middle (Rafael Sbarge) is still around. I think the other guy is Richard Masur. This is the cast of Risky Business. Great movie!
neutral · AI labelView post →@adamkinzinger.bsky.social ‘s trolling game is strong! 🤣 Kudos, sir, as if we don’t laugh, we’d cry. It’s a bit like Tom Cruise in the film, “Risky Business”:
neutral · AI labelView post →A call back to another “Risky Business” era movie would be GOLD! Please! #911onABC
neutral · AI labelView post →#Trainsongs no. 73: Tangerine Dream: Love On A Real Train. From the soundtrack of the film Risky Business, I think it was on the soundtrack album and was out as a single. I've got it on some sort of compilation of TD soundtrack its and pieces which is #NowPlaying
neutral · AI labelView post →For the 40th anniversary of “Risky Business” I wrote about the classic film, which deserves to be remembered as so much more than another teen movie, and the star that it created. https://marisatomay.substack.com/p/he-deals-in-human-fulfillment?utm_campaign=post
neutral · AI labelView post →My visceral dislike of Tom Cruise goes back to Risky Business and I actually want to see this movie, thanks for the recommendation!
negative · AI labelView post →#MusicChallenge #52WeeksOfFavourites (37/52) #MusicSky 🎞️📺 Film & TV Songs 📺🎞️ “Every Breath You Take (theme from the film, Risky Business (1983))” (The Police) youtu.be/_BDCkKm4mmw
neutral · AI labelView post →What should tonight’s movie be? They’re both now on streaming and part of my birth year challenge. - RISKY BUSINESS - FLASHDANCE
neutral · AI labelView post →Revisiting both it and Risky Business in recent years, I was amazed that the public perception on release was "fun sexy disco movie" and "nutty kid hijinks" when both are very complex, very dark, fucked up stories.
positive · AI labelView post →I saw that on HBO a decade ago and that was a really good movie. It's now in my top 5 of 1981. Frankly, it's the true breakthrough of Tom Cruise before Outsiders and Risky Business especially when he goes batshit crazy in the end.
neutral · AI labelView post →Favourite film for each year of the 1980s: 1980: Where the Buffalo Roam 1981: The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie 1982: Blade Runner 1983: Risky Business 1984: Repo Man 1985: Back to the Future 1986: Little Shop of Horrors 1987: Raising Arizona 1988: Heathers 1989: The Unbelievable Truth
positive · AI labelView post →Too many to count but one time my husband started up Revolutionary Girl Utena for the first time. I heard the music through the wall and practically slid out of the bedroom Risky Business-style (see below). We watched the series & the movie together, and I am now Secretary of the Nanami Fan Club.
neutral · AI labelView post →Curtis Armstrong doesn’t get the credit he deserves. Between Revenge of the Nerds, Better Off Dead, and Risky Business, he kind of deserves every great movie accolade there is.
neutral · AI labelView post →Thanks to @andrewmale.bsky.social and @mariephillips.bsky.social I finally watched RISKY BUSINESS for the first time. Although I'm not familiar enough with Taylor Swift's wardrobe, Rebecca DeMornay's pre-cog impersonation of her is just one of the pleasing surprises. letterboxd.com/danielmudfor...
positive · AI labelView post →Every Tom Cruise Movie, Ranked: www.metacritic.com/pictures/eve... #8 - Risky Business [75] - "It’s 'Ferris Bueller' with an existential crisis. Very funny and very weird." - Ian Nathan, Empire
neutral · AI labelView post →How do *you* define a 'vehicle' picture? Was 'Risky Business' a Tom Cruise vehicle? Was 'Days of Thunder'? Farley with Tommy Boy/Beverly Hills Ninja? Is a vehicle film solely to break out a burgeoning star? Is the term 'star vehicle' only applicable *before* stardom?
neutral · AI labelView post →I agree that he absolutely peaked here buuuuuut I always have to get people to give Risky Business a try. It's a remarkable movie and has my all-time favorite sex scene on film ever.
positive · AI labelView post →A film that boldly asks “What if we made a good version of Ferris Buehler’s Day Off?” It has all the beats of a John Hughes teen movie—especially that one—while actually saying something about America, capitalism, and class. Episode 114 - Risky Business sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...
neutral · AI labelView post →#AugustMovieChallenge Day 9 Pond or Lake In A Movie Risky Business (1983) youtu.be/bodVVtqmbZE?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Like you mention Risky Business but can you IMAGINE the scene with Jackie in a movie now? It'd read like Daily Wire shit.
neutral · AI labelView post →Risky Business: A Look Inside America's Adult Film Industry is one of the better #documentaries on the subject. What makes this documentary unique is it features adult stars of the early 2000s which is extremely rare. It has great #interviews and doesn't lecture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb9z...
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW EPISODE of GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC! John Malahy, author of “Rewinding the ‘80s” (on shelves Tuesday) on what may be the quintessential ‘80s movie, and the breakthrough role of the quintessential ‘80s movie star: Tom Cruise in Paul Brickman’s “Risky Business.” pod.link/1274489817/e...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tom Cruise had his breakthrough moment on this day in 1983 when Risky Business (Cruise’s 5th film) premiered. Directed by Paul Brickman, this nuanced teenage romp has a great soundtrack – highlighted by Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll” & five oscillating songs by techno pioneers Tangerine Dream
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