RISKY BUSINESS

'''Risky Business''' is a 1983 film written and directed by Paul Brickman. Considered a breakout film for actor Tom Cruise (in the role of Joel), the movie is about a suburban Chicago teenage guy with aspirations of attending Princeton. While his parents are on vacation, Joel crashes his father's Porsche 928. To raise money for the repairs, Joel runs a brothel in his parents' Glencoe house and becomes a pimp. The film also stars Rebecca De Mornay as Lana, Joe Pantoliano as Guido, Curtis Armstrong as Miles, Richard Masur as Rutherford, the Princeton University interviewer, and Bronson Pinchot as Barry.
In the movie's iconic scene, Cruise dances in his underwear and socks and lip syncs to Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock & Roll".
'Taglines':

★ ''There's a time for playing it safe and a time for Risky Business''.

★ ''Meet the model son who's been good too long.''

Contents

Cast

The dance scene in popular culture

Trivia

External links

Cast

★ ''Tom Cruise'' as Joel Goodsen

★ ''Rebecca De Mornay'' as Lana

★ ''Joe Pantoliano'' as Guido

★ ''Curtis Armstrong'' as Miles

★ ''Richard Masur'' as Rutherford

★ ''Bronson Pinchot'' as Barry

★ ''Nicholas Pryor'' as Mr. Goodsen

★ ''Janet Carroll'' as Mrs. Goodsen

The dance scene in popular culture

The movie, Risky Business, was filmed in Diana Levy's house on Linden Ave. in Highland Park, IL
The scene of Tom Cruise dancing in his white tee shirt and briefs to Bob Seger has become a popular culture touchpoint, and is often shown in parody:

★ ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'' episode "The Philadelphia Story," in which the family leaves Geoffrey at home to visit Will's mother.

★ ''The Simpsons'' episode "Homer the Heretic", in which Homer dances to "Who Wears Short-Shorts", the theme song through much of the 1970s for Nair hair removal cream.

★ ''King of the Hill'' episode ''Peggy the Boggle Champ''

★ ''ALF'' danced the Tom Cruise dance

★ The "Canasta Master" episode of the comedy series ''The Nanny''

★ ''Saved by the Bell''

★ ''Duckman'' episode "Apocalypse Not"

★ ''Lizzie McGuire''

★ ''South Park'' episode 416 - "The Wacky Molestation Adventure", after Kyle gets his parents wrongfully arrested on molestation charges.

★ The film ''The Guru''

★ The episode "Ruskie Business" (the title itself a play on the movie) of ''Veronica Mars'', in which one character dresses and dances as Cruise at an 80s-themed dance (and another character is named "Tom Cruz")

★ The episode "The Lam" of ''NewsRadio''

★ Twice on ''Saturday Night Live'': once by Ron Reagan when he hosted in 1986 and once by Nicole Kidman (the future wife of Cruise) when she hosted in the early 1990s.

★ ''The Lone Gunmen'' episode "Eine Kleine Frohike" features Jimmy Bond doing his impression of the dance to Yves Adele Harlow's utter surprise and disgust.

★ ''The Nanny''

★ ''Kappa Mikey''

Trivia

★ The Crystal Egg makes an appearance in episode 218 of ''The O.C.'' called "The Risky Business" which aired on April 7, 2005. The episode's plot involves the egg being put up for a charity auction but is stolen by a principal character from season two. The episode then centers on the characters trying to get back the egg. The episode also includes a remake of the famous "throwing the egg like a football" scene where a main character dives and catches it just before it hits the ground and breaks. Tangerine Dream's "Love on a Real Train" is also played during the episode.

★ The series finale of ''Arrested Development'' (February 2006) has a sign reading "Risky Business" raised in the office after the Bluth Company stock improves and it is implied that one of the workers was inspired to re-create the famous dancing scene, but fails and injures himself by sliding into a ladder.

★ The Goodsons' house is, in real life, just around the corner from the one used as the Jarretts' in ''Ordinary People''

★ This movie marked the first movie appearance of Megan Mullally, who played a call girl.

★ This movie ranked number 40 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies.

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