The lead review expresses some distaste for how the parents are portrayed, a view with which I must take issue.
The basic story (teenage boy has misadventures while his parents are away) resonated very strongly with me because during the '70s, on several separate occasions when our parents were away, my brother and I hosted week-long, sustained parties that were only a little smaller and more restrained - and with only the hookers missing. We grew up in the Chicago suburbs where Risky Business was filmed, where such parties, while by no means common, most definitely occurred.
My mother, bless her, could have supplied the line uttered by Joel's mother, because each time, as she and my father departed, Mom would say, in the same tone as Joel's mom, "We trust you, dear."
Joel Goodson's parents weren't portrayed as stupid or naive, simply trusting. They trusted their son - with good reason - and there was only the smallest evidence that anything untoward had happened in their absence. The same was true in the case of my brother and me.
My only regret about Risky Business is that it was not released with the original, darker ending, which would have added considerable resonance to the story which, in the end, was about the loss of innocence.
The basic story (teenage boy has misadventures while his parents are away) resonated very strongly with me because during the '70s, on several separate occasions when our parents were away, my brother and I hosted week-long, sustained parties that were only a little smaller and more restrained - and with only the hookers missing. We grew up in the Chicago suburbs where Risky Business was filmed, where such parties, while by no means common, most definitely occurred.
My mother, bless her, could have supplied the line uttered by Joel's mother, because each time, as she and my father departed, Mom would say, in the same tone as Joel's mom, "We trust you, dear."
Joel Goodson's parents weren't portrayed as stupid or naive, simply trusting. They trusted their son - with good reason - and there was only the smallest evidence that anything untoward had happened in their absence. The same was true in the case of my brother and me.
My only regret about Risky Business is that it was not released with the original, darker ending, which would have added considerable resonance to the story which, in the end, was about the loss of innocence.