Risky Business
(1983)
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Joel Goodson is the type of teenager who makes his parents proud: he's nice, handsome, intelligent, and even principled. But when Joel's parents leave town for a few days, a series of events occur that will change Joel's sheltered life. For starters, he meets Lana, a hooker who proceeds to deflower our young hero, and then suggests he turn his home into a house of prostitution for one evening. Joel agrees, and just as sexy hookers and randy guys turn Joel's house upside down, a representative from Princeton University arrives, to interview Joel! How Joel handles this and other crises (losing his dad's Porsche, the loss of all his furniture, falling in love with a prostitute) will alter Joel's life forever. |
In this bright comedy, Tom Cruise stars as the teenager who turns his parents' home into a brothel after an encounter with Rebecca De Mornay's entrepreneurial hooker. Writer/director Paul Brickman has honed a sharp satire on American go-getting here, as Cruise — parents away, with the use of their Porsche — starts making money out of his sexually frustrated friends. The danger, though, comes when a killer-pimp arrives on the scene (“never muck with a man's business”); that's when this comedy of embarrassment becomes a near-tragedy of class collisions. There's no such thing as a totally free enterprise.