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Risky Business
With his parents away from home a Chicago teenager decides to go on a trip with his father's expensive car which leads him to sourcing for money via lucrative means.
24 December 1940, Chicago, Illinois, USA
15 October 1960, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 August 1947, Amarillo, Texas, USA
17 August 1960, Santa Monica, California, USA
12 February 1964, New York City, New York, USA
20 May 1959, New York City, New York, USA
13 January 1960, Gurnee, Illinois, USA
July 31, 2013
As adolescent adventures go, Risky Business is an invigorating, first-class affair: It manages to make coming of age a witty proposition.
August 11, 2010
It's sexy, smart and funny, but also stylish and filled with social satire and commentary on the culture of money.
October 23, 2004
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 were, a teenage boy.
September 28, 2008
It's easy to forget the idiosyncracies of a film that so successfully trades on adolescent male fantasies and nightmares. [Blu-ray]
April 10, 2016
... you could call it an art movie version of the teen sex comedy.
July 16, 2009
A capitalist wet dream; one that we have long since woken up from screaming.
August 06, 2007
One of the finest film explorations of the end of innocence.
July 31, 2013
Writer/director Paul Brickman has honed a sharp satire on American go-getting here.
May 20, 2003
[The film] improves as it goes along.
August 06, 2007
Writer-director Paul Brickman can therefore be accused of trying to have it both ways, but there's no denying the stylishness and talent of his direction.
April 30, 2009
For writer/director Paul Brickman, this was a case of being in the right place at the right time and, perhaps most importantly, getting the right leading man in place.
February 09, 2006
What distinguishes it, however, is that it's hovering permanently on the brink of stark, staring disaster in a way that strangely recalls The Graduate.