Risky Business - 25th Anniversary Edition

On our latest edition of oh my god has it really been that long since that came out, we have "Risky Business." It was just released in a 25^th Anniversary standard and Blu-Ray DVD edition with a bunch of special features many of us have been waiting years for. I can remember watching the trailer for this movie in a movie theater so many years ago and that Porsche crashing in the lake. I even remember watching it with my brother (part of it anyway) when it was first out on VHS (our parents were not home). Watching it freaked me out actually, and I couldn't believe a lot of the things going on. It seemed cruel what Lana was doing to Joel Goodson. Then again, I was 8 or 9 when I saw this, so what did I know about call girls? Not a whole lot, but that was probably just as well.

Years later, I was able to actually understand what was going on in "Risky Business," and it remains one of my favorite Tom Cruise movies. The amazing thing about this movie being as old as it now is, it is actually timeless when you look at the themes. Parents overly encouraging their kids to retake the SAT's and wanting them to get into the best schools, the excitement of having the family home all to yourself, taking out your dad's car which you could never hope to be insured to drive as a teenager, none of this ever gets old. The movie was made in the age of capitalism, and that age is still with us while it is enduring some nasty speed bumps (the stock market crashing). It was "The Graduate" for the 80's generation, and I think it's safe to say that it will has the same staying power as that movie. Roger Ebert has gone out of his way to compare this movie to "The Graduate." Can you blame him?