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Risky Business
Whilst on vacation, a suburban teenager takes his father's Porsche on a trip causing him to need cash which he quickly gets to creative means.
28 January 1935, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
17 August 1960, Santa Monica, California, USA
9 October 1949, Hartsdale, New York, USA
January 27, 1961 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA
20 August 1947, Amarillo, Texas, USA
12 September 1951, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
12 November 1958, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 September 1953, New York City, New York, USA
April 10, 2016
... you could call it an art movie version of the teen sex comedy.
July 31, 2013
Writer/director Paul Brickman has honed a sharp satire on American go-getting here.
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.
July 16, 2009
A capitalist wet dream; one that we have long since woken up from screaming.
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.
August 06, 2007
One of the finest film explorations of the end of innocence.
May 20, 2003
[The film] improves as it goes along.
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.
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.
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 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.
August 11, 2010
It's sexy, smart and funny, but also stylish and filled with social satire and commentary on the culture of money.
