
Risky Business
1983movie

That’s why Risky Business is so affecting — it is a commentary on social injustice, on how the machine is oiled for certain people. Lana is the underdog of society, and I related to that.
W hen Risky Business premiered in the summer of 1983, it came at the end of a cycle of mostly disreputable comedies about teenage boys losing their virginity to older, experienced women—a cycle that included now largely forgotten films like Lewis John Carlino’s Class (Andrew McCarthy and Jacqueline Bisset), Alan Myerson’s Private Lessons (Eric Brown and Sylvia Kristel), and George Bowers ...