Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Curtis Armstrong

A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.

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R, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Paul Brickman

Release Date: August 5, 1983

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DVD Release Date: August 27, 1997

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  • May 28, 2009
    Curtis Armstrong! Also, Tom surely had a hard time rejecting that big black guy.
  • February 21, 2009
    Risky Business is one of those classic 80's films that everyone has (or should have) seen. It has several iconic scenes that people know about, even if they haven't watched the movie.

    It's cool to see a young Tom Cruise in a different kind of film than what's commonly made today...( read more). Risky Business is occasionally funny, consistently risqué, and (unfortunately) intermittently boring. It's entertaining enough for me to recommend to anyone to watch at least once, but don't go out buying it until you've sampled it first.
  • September 8, 2008
    Sometimes you just have to say
    "What the fu(k"
  • August 29, 2008
    Okay in a previous review I mentioned how Top Gun WAS the 1980's...no joke...it literally was the entire decade condensed into 2 hours. Well...that was until I saw Risky Business.....THIS MOVIE IS THE 80'S TOO! So now it's like both films are together the 80's...I mean damn it'...( read more)s like a cosmic explosion of epitomes...

    Gnarly underwear dancing scene bra! Tubular train fuckin scene brosef! Reggae pimp chase sequence homie!
  • March 2, 2008
    Classic 80's film, prostitution is deemed acceptable, gotta make that money.
  • November 21, 2009
    Define muy bien los 80's, no es una mala pelicula, tampoco es buena, pero es agradable de ver varias escenas e imagenes iconica.-
  • November 13, 2009
    risky business nice
  • October 28, 2009
    Despite its dated feel, the tepid romance scenes between Cruise and DeMornay and the farfetched nature of some of its scenarios, this film has an interesting premise, great style and good acting.
  • October 3, 2009
    It's gonna be bad, but with the Tangerine Dream soundtrack to top it off, this is probably a good choice for some 80s nostalgia. The film that made Tom Cruise.
  • September 23, 2009
    A 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.he meets up with a hooker who is on the run from her pimp she moves in with him they fall in...( read more) love and then she helps him turn his house into a weekend bordello as part of a school assignment and he nets the top prize and gets into Princeton, the college of his choice. would have to say my FAVE scene is when tom cranks up the volume to bob segers "old time rock and roll" and dances around in his underwear!! a classic!!!

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October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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 wer... full review

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  • ajischillin
    July 15, 2008
    http://www.tomcruise.com/tom-cruise-risky-business-movie.html
  • RachandFrank4ever
    April 12, 2008
    Great movie,Tom Cruise is awesome in this movie. I love the scene where he dances to the song "Rock and Roll" in this underwear!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!! :-)

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