Risky Business

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General		Extras
Category	Coming-Of-Age	Theatrical Trailer(s)	None
Rating		Other Trailer(s)	None
Year Released	1983	Commentary Tracks	None
Running Time	95 minutes	Other Extras	Cast & Crew Biographies
RSDL/Flipper	No/No	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Movie
Region	4	Director	Paul Brickman
Studio Distributor	Warner Brothers	Starring	Tom Cruise Rebecca De Mornay
Case	Snapper
RRP	$29.95	Music

Video		Audio
Pan & Scan/Full Frame	Full Frame	MPEG	None
Widescreen Aspect Ratio	1.78:1	Dolby Digital	2.0
16x9 Enhancement	Yes	Soundtrack Languages	English (Dolby Digital 2.0 ) French (Dolby Digital 2.0 ) Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Theatrical Aspect Ratio	1.85:1	Miscellaneous
Macrovision	?
Subtitles	English French Dutch Italian Spanish Portuguese Arabic English for the Hearing Impaired Italian for the Hearing Impaired	Smoking	Yes

    Joel is ably assisted by Lana (Rebecca De Mornay) a sassy brassy prostitute who befriends Joel and shows him how to make a quick buck, amongst other things.

    There are a number of classic scenes and lines in this movie, including the memorable dance Joel does to the tune of Bob Seeger's Old Time Rock And Roll. If you like Tom Cruise, or if you like Rebecca De Mornay, or even if you just want to relive the memory of a classic 1980s movie, watch Risky Business. It really does make you feel old when you realise that this movie is now 15 years old.

Video

    The transfer is presented at an aspect ratio of 1.78:1, 16x9 enhanced. The other side of the disc carries a Full Frame presentation of the movie.

    The transfer was mostly clear and sharp, though odd scenes here and there were a bit on the grainy side. Shadow detail was acceptable without being great, and no low level noise was apparent.

    The colours were acceptable, though the entire look of the movie was that of an older movie. This is presumably as a result of the use of older-style film stocks when the film was originally shot.

    No MPEG artefacts were seen. Film-to-video artefacts consisted of small amounts of aliasing on venetian blinds, but certainly nothing to be at all concerned about. Film artefacts were plentiful early on in the movie, with lots of white scratches to be seen. Fortunately, this settled down as the movie progressed.

Audio

    Dialogue was always clear and audible.

    There were no audio sync problems with this disc.

    The musical score was provided by Tangerine Dream and had their characteristic synthetic sound about it. In the case of this movie, this actually very nicely complemented the on-screen action. In addition, a number of then contemporary songs were used with great effect, including the aforementioned Old Time Rock And Roll and the Phil Collins classic In The Air Tonight.

     The surround channel had limited use for music, but otherwise the movie sound came from the centre channel only. Basically, this was a stereo movie with a small amount of signal mixed to the rears. It was not enveloping at all, not that this caused any particular negative impact on the movie.

   The .1 channel received a small amount of signal at times from the Prologic processor during passages of music but was otherwise silent.

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Cast & Crew Biographies

    The video quality is acceptable, even though there are quite a number of film artefacts visible early on in the movie.

    The audio quality is acceptable.

    The extras present are very very limited.

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© Michael Demtschyna
6th May 1999