Powerful

Perfect cast and a good story

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This movie helped launch Tom Cruise's film career as he previously was in the 1981 Endless Love, Taps, The Outsiders, and Losin' It, but all those movies don't compare to 1983's Risky Business as Tom Cruise (Joel Goodsen) hit it big with these classic,staring along with Rebecca De Mornay (Lana) the prostitute he character hires when his parents are away. The movie has the Tom Cruise dancing in his underwear scene, the music is also well-known as also Tom Cruise actually running. The script is clever as it all add's together, by the end he pay's off Lana's bill, fixes his father's Porsche, get's accepted into Princeton, get's Lana to become his girlfriend, and figures out what he want's to do with his life. Also Joe Pantoliano has a supporting role as Guido, Lana's "manager" who show's up at the end and Joel takes care of him by the end of the movie. Curtis Armstrong also is in the movie as he play's Miles Dalby (Joel's best friend) who encourages him to break the rules while his parent's are away. The cast help's make the movie a classic along with the crew.

Continuing my plan to watch every Tom Cruise movie in order, I was unable to track down a copy of Losin It, so I went straight to his first movie of 1983, Risky Business.Plot In A Paragraph: 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.I've never been a huge fan of this movie, don't get me wrong, I don't dislike it, I just find it watchable and nothing more. This was the breakout role for Cruise, and he does a good job for the most part, some of his lines are a bit forced, but over all, he is OK. Rebecca De Mornay is the best thing in the movie, the whore with a heart of gold is a clichéd role, but she does well with it. Joe Pantoliano (an actor I always enjoy watching) is great as a pimp, Bronson Pinchot is his usual reliable self and Richard Masur has a small role too. It's interesting to see a young Cruise on the cusp of stardom, and it has some good dialogue too, but overall it's not one I care to revisit. Risky Business grossed $63million at the domestic box office, to end the year the 10th highest grossing movie of 1983.

I honestly didn't realise Tom Cruise looked absolutely handsome when he was younger. There are scenes that can really confuse you like the girl he was hooking up wanted $300 and then when he couldn't get it and then he finds out who she was, she didn't want it. Also Guido takes his stuff and asks him for money, he probably should've called the police to be honest with you. I mean, it didn't make sense for him to be bribed like that, it really is stressful and dangerous for a young kid like him to be in that situation.Near the ending, when things were back to normal and in the right places, the mother was such a wimp just because there was a small crack on her glass egg. Such a stupid scene to have in this type of movie or even the script on that note was quite stupid! That's the only massive hiccup that cheesed me off with this film! Ill give this movie a 7/10, it was an OK film but that part I told ya about,threw me off a little bit....

Definitely an interesting movie, a guy goes from just wanting to have sex with a hooker for the first time to creating a massive one-night whore house making 8000 dollars a night, just because of his troubles of living alone without parents for a couple of days. Some people can say the movie lacked funny parts, which is completely false, a movie like ''Risky Business'' doesn't need to be saturated with laughable scenes, it has other great qualities to it.The movie had very little character involvement, but Tom Cruise(Joel), completely carried the movie by himself here, so there wasn't a need for multiple interesting characters in this movie. Without a doubt this has to be one of the best movies for Tom Cruise, he had a well rounded, interesting character, that was kind of easy to relate to emotionally.''Risky Business'' had some memorable and even iconic moments, which gives a movie this good vibe of never really getting old, for example Joel's dance at the beginning of the film has inspired many other film makers to implement that slide out Joel performed in their movies, when it come to a musical part.