Sometimes you just gotta say, "What the fork?" ...or something like that. Forty years ago Tom Cruise starred in this coming of age story that set him up for superstardom. The story stood out from your typical teen movie of the time. This week Jay and Shua look back at how to Enjoy a little Risky Business. 

 

Enjoy Stuff looks back at Risky Business on it’s 40th anniversary

 

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Paul Brickman wrote and directed the 1983 movie Risky Business. It looked like your typical teen sex comedy of the time, but the way he crafted it turned into something unique. Tom Cruise plays Joel Goodson, a high school senior who is left home alone when his controlling parents leave town for a week. His responsibility? Keep his upper-class, fancy home and his dad’s Porsche in perfect order while working hard on school and trying to get into Harvard. 

 

Sounds like something any teen could handle. Yeah,...right. Peer pressure and hormones push him to get a little crazy and order a call girl. Eventually this leads him to running his own brothel in his parents’ home. When Guido the killer pimp gets his revenge by stealing everything in the house including his mother’s precious crystal egg, Joel has to use all the money he made and buy it all back before his parents get home. 

 

We’ll break down some of the themes and why this movie worked and actually stands up to time. 

 

Have you seen Risky Business? Did you use your parents’ house for creative purposes when they left town? First person that emails me with the subject line, “What the fudge” will get a special mention on the show.  Let us know. Come talk to us in the Discord channel or send us an email to [email protected]