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Film · Warner Bros. · 1983

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Risky Business

16Leave it.

Parents leave, he spends the house, and the movie wants you to call that growing up.

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The review

The parents leave town. A high-school boy turns the house into a business with a sex worker, and the film treats that as coming of age. I will not describe it, and I will not smile at the alibi. The house is the asset he spends.

Do not put this on for a minor. Do not let a fan tell you it is basically a sweet movie about nerve. He spends a home that belongs to the people who are gone, and the story is proud of the spend. Growing up would have left them a house. This leaves a stunt. If the room laughs, fine. Then somebody say what the parents came home to.

Journal

Keep Risky Business in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 16. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Fight Club

28 instead of 16

Fight Club is still a drama film, and it scores 28 instead of 16. What you gain is truth: It knows the narrator is sick.

The eight

2
Industry
He calls it a business. It is the parents' house spent, not work that builds anything.
2
Household
The parents leave, and the home they keep is the asset their son liquidates.
1
Piety
Conscience does not stop him, and the film names the spree a coming of age.
3
Courage
He risks the house he would miss, and the movie praises him for spending it.
1
Republic
No neighbor or law is owed a duty. Other people are how the house becomes cash.
1
Temperance
Wanting is the plot, and you are asked to call feeding it adulthood.
2
Truth
Calling this growing up is the lie. The bill is the house, and he does not pay it.
1
Stewardship
What is left for the people who live there is a house he already spent.

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Film · 20th Century · 1975

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

16Leave it.

Funny if you already live in the costume. Not for kids, and not a little church.

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The review

People dressed for it. A newly engaged couple breaks down and enters a castle where a scientist from another planet is building a man. The songs became a midnight ritual. The joke is innocence walking into appetite and staying. If you are already inside that joke, it is funny. It is adult, and it is not for children.

They arrived engaged. The night does not hand that back. Staying is the punchline. I would not play this where a kid can hear the songs and decide the castle is the more interesting life. A ritual you dress up for is still a ritual, and this one is organized around wanting, not around getting anybody home.