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Risky Business
MEANRANK
71/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2120
- IMDb #2633
- Google retired #1998
- Rotten Tomatoes #1306
- Metacritic #1356
- Letterboxd #2504
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #690
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2319
- Metacritic Audience #2158
- Criticker #1829
- Douban #1793
- Kinopoisk #2569
- AlloCiné #3223
- Trakt #2703
Every rating
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Lowest is Criticker on 48, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 93. Critics average 84, everyone else 68.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A high-achieving high school student's life is turned upside down when his parents go on vacation. He accidentally damages his father's prized Porsche. To pay for the repairs, he embarks on a series of bad decisions that lead him to turn his home into a brothel for one night with the help of a charismatic call girl, quickly spiraling out of control.
Details
- Director
- Paul Brickman
- Writer
- Paul Brickman
- Released
- 5 August 1983
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $6.2M
- Box office
- $63.5M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| Golden Globe Awards 1984 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominee | |
| Writers Guild of America Awards 1984 | Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screenplay | Nominee |
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| Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screenplay | Nominee |