Some films entertain for two hours and fade away. Others quietly shift the landscape of Hollywood. Risky Business, released in 1983 and directed by Paul Brickman, did exactly that. What looked on the surface like a slick teen comedy became the launchpad for Tom Cruise’s career and secured its place as one of the defining films of the 1980s. Cruise plays Joel Goodsen, a suburban Chicago high school senior whose paren…







