'Risky Business'
The Ringer's Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan quit playing it safe and trade in their microphones to deal in human fulfillment after rewatching 1983's 'Risky Business,' starring Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay.
Cast
Tom Cruise as Joel Goodson
Rebecca De Mornay as Lana
Joe Pantoliano as Guido
Curtis Armstrong as Miles
Bronson Pinchot as Barry
Directed by: Paul Brickman
Written by: Paul Brickman
Music by: Tangerine Dream
Notes
- This is Tom Cruise's 14th Rewatchable – he 'leads the league' and is called 'the Babe Ruth of The Rewatchables.'
- Paul Brickman's original darker ending was replaced after test screenings. He was offered 'Rain Man' and 'Forrest Gump' but turned them both down.
- Harry Dean Stanton love triangle: De Mornay was his girlfriend, he got her the audition, then came to set daily swimming laps while Cruise and De Mornay's off-screen relationship developed.
- The 'Old Time Rock and Roll' dance was completely improvised – Cruise was just instructed to dance to rock music.
- Ray-Ban Wayfarer sales skyrocketed 2,000% after this film.
- A Porsche 928 used in the film sold for $49,000 in 2012, then for $1.98 million nine years later.
Categories
Quote from Rog's review:
“One of the smartest, funniest, most perceptive satires in a long time. It not only invites comparison with The Graduate, it earns it.”
Ebert called it 'a great comedy about teenage sex'
- The first 10 minutes – dream, poker game, Miles's 'what the fuck' speech, Old Time Rock and Roll dance
- Joel transforming into 'the pimp' with Ray-Bans
- The Porsche going into the lake
- The Tangerine Dream score – 'you could put this score on any movie and it would be five percent better'
- Ray-Ban Wayfarers – 2,000% sales increase
- The crystal egg – every family had one irrational valuable
- Going into the airport to walk parents to the gate (ended after 9/11)
- Joel's Princeton credentials: 560 verbal, 530 math, 3.1 GPA – no chance
- Paul Brickman never directing again
- 'Old Time Rock and Roll' by Bob Seger
- 'In the Air Tonight' by Phil Collins – first major movie use before Miami Vice
Joel calling Lana – catcher's mask on, 'checks cashed' flashing in the background
Moving all the furniture back in 4-5 minutes before the parents return
- Chris: Risky Business is the prequel to Eyes Wide Shut
- Bill: This is the second-best Tom Cruise role ever, behind Jerry Maguire
- Bill: Cruise has had better chemistry with De Mornay than any other female co-star
- Timothy Hutton was the first choice for Joel
- Michelle Pfeiffer was offered Lana and turned it down
Glenn (Raphael Sbarge) – the power slap and manic reaction after paying for sex at the party
- Curtis Armstrong as Miles
- Joe Pantoliano as Guido the Killer Pimp
- Joel's house very close to Ferris Bueller's house in Highland Park on Google Earth
- Sean Penn was driving the Porsche in the first driveway shot
- Paul Brickman – definitely
- Porsche – this movie influenced a generation wanting to drive one
- No way Guido catches Joel in the Porsche during the car chase
- Joel's SAT scores would never get him into Princeton
- Was Lana scamming Joel from the beginning?
- Was Miles a sociopath?
- Is Joel a virgin at the start?
'Sometimes you gotta say what the fuck'
Ferris Bueller's Day Off – suburban Chicago, iconic car-in-peril scenes, opposite philosophies
Tom Cruise wins the movie
Craig called it an 'immediate top 10 all-time comedy' and said the dance scene has overshadowed the movie unfairly