event Risky Business
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Fri Mar 19
11:59 pm
Risky Business at Music Box Theatre
Paul Brickman's 1983 coming-of-age comedy Risky Business is remembered as Tom Cruise's breakthrough and for the famed underwear scene, but it's a considerably moodier and more accomplished film than you might think. When his parents go out of town, Cruise's straight-arrow high-school senior turns into an accidental pimp after he nervously hires a call girl (Rebecca De Mornay), wrecks his father's Porsche, and needs some money to cover up his mistakes. Risky Business is partly about how teens grow up, discover desire, and move past the little-kid images that line their parents' homes. But the "business" half of the title is just as important. Forced to embrace his role as a panderer, Cruise winds up looking at capitalism at its rawest as he joins De Mornay in the "shameless pursuit of material gratification."
Music Box Theatre 3733 North Southport Avenue, Chicago, IL
Paul Brickman's 1983 coming-of-age comedy Risky Business is remembered as Tom Cruise's breakthrough and for the famed underwear scene, but it's a considerably moodier and more accomplished film than you might think. When his parents go out of town, Cruise's straight-arrow high-school senior turns into an accidental pimp after he nervously hires a call girl (Rebecca De Mornay), wrecks his father's Porsche, and needs some money to cover up his mistakes. Risky Business is partly about how teens grow up, discover desire, and move past the little-kid images that line their parents' homes. But the "business" half of the title is just as important. Forced to embrace his role as a panderer, Cruise winds up looking at capitalism at its rawest as he joins De Mornay in the "shameless pursuit of material gratification."
Updated 03/11/2010
