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Subject: Risky Business
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Date: Tue, 13-Sep-83 11:45:54 EDT
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Date:  6 Sep 1983 1748-PDT
From: EISELT@UCI-20A
Subject: Risky Business
To: movies@UCI-20A
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  I used to have this recurring nightmare which ended with me being
late for some important exam.  I had this nightmare all through my
undergrad years, occasionally while I was out of school, and maybe
once or twice since I've been in grad school.  It even happened to me
for real once...I misread the final exam schedule and showed up two
days late to my Math 2B exam.  So it is that I came to be so captivated
by "Risky Business".  We are introduced to Joel, the main character,
through a similar, though much more aesthetically appealing, nightmare.
Joel, played by Tom Cruise, is your basic clean-cut Princeton-bound
high-school senior who is trying to balance his Ivy-league image with
that hormonal madness inherent in all teenage males awaiting their 
first sexual conquest.  

  Joel's parents go away for a week, leaving him alone with his fanatasies.
His fantasies turn into reality when he procures the services of a 
young prostitute, and things go sour when Joel discovers he is unable
to pay for services rendered.  Thus begins a series of mishaps
through which Joel sees his carefully-constructed future crumble apart,
piece by piece.  But Joel is given the opportunity to make it all 
right again before his parents come home.  How he does it defies
credibility, but is funny nonetheless.  At the risk of spoiling 
the ending, my favorite part of the movie is just before the ending
credits, when Joel fantasizes his speech to the Future Enterprisers
club (a Junior Achievement clone):  after the other young entrepreneurs
tell about the piddling sums they made by producing and selling 
scented clothes hangers and musical note pads, Joel says, "I'm Joel...
I deal in human fulfillment.  I grossed eight-thousand dollars in 
one night."

  "Risky Business" is the best I've seen this summer (with one 
exception to be reviewed shortly)...an oasis in this summer's
celluloid wasteland.  It's no 10 on anybody's scale, including
my own, but it IS funny and very entertaining.  And if you've
ever had the misfortune of being a teenage male thinking with his
glands instead of his brains, see if this movie doesn't at least
dredge up memories of some old fantasies, if not the realities.

Kurt