Risky Business

Risky Business is a 1983 film written and directed by Paul Brickman. Considered a breakout film for celebrity actor Tom Cruise (in the role of Joel Goodson), the movie is about a suburban Chicago teenager. While his parents are on vacation, Joel sinks his father's Porsche 928 into Lake Michigan. To raise money for the repairs, Joel runs a brothel in his parents' house.

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1983 - Film - Paul Brickman - Actor - Tom Cruise - Suburb - Chicago - Porsche 928 - Lake Michigan - Brothel

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The film also stars Rebecca De Mornay as Lana, Joe Pantoliano as Guido, Curtis Armstrong as Miles, Richard Masur as the Princeton University interviewer, and Bronson Pinchot as Barry.

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Rebecca De Mornay - Joe Pantoliano - Curtis Armstrong - Richard Masur - Princeton University - Bronson Pinchot

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The movie's iconic sequence is the one in which Cruise dances in his underwear to Bob Seger's song "Old Time Rock and Roll".

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Bob Seger - Old Time Rock and Roll

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The film is considered by many critics to be a social and political satire, to a certain extent. One critic went so far as to imply that Cruise's famous dance sequence was a metaphor for the loose period of freedom after the Vietnam war. Although this may be a bit of a stretch, the film as a whole is a very thorough look at the rites of passage of a young man becoming an adult. The film's cinematography and existentialist moments have been compared to the film American Beauty, with one critic calling Risky Business a sort of prequel.

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Social - Political - American Beauty - Prequel

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