Sometimes you just gotta say "what the heck."
For my next pick, team
Hot Buttery Topping selects in the
first Wildcard category, the movie that made Tom Cruise a star,
Risky Business.
Cruise plays Joel, a Chicago high school student with aspirations of attending Princeton, but the grades to attend the University of Illinois.
Joel's parents go on vacation, leaving him alone in the big house, with a booming stereo system and a Porsche in the garage.
Joel's friend Miles (Curtis Armstrong) calls and orders an "escort" to Joel's house one night. The escort is not what Joel had in mind, but "she" knows someone who's just "what every white boy off the lake wants." Lana (the super-hot Rebecca De Mornay) comes to Joel's house, they have sex, and a string of misadventures begins...leading to Joel needed to raise a lot of money to pay for significant repairs to his father's Porsche, while avoiding physical harm at the hands of Lana's pimp, Guido (Joe Pantoliano).
The solution to Joel's problem is to get Joel's friends together with Lana's friends, essentially turning his parents suburban home into a high school brothel for the night.
The movie is probably most famous for one of the most parodied/imitated scenes in movie history...
As I said, this is the movie that made the 21 year-old Cruise a star. His on-screen charisma turned this movie from a standard high school "gotta get laid" movie into one of the quintessential films of the 1980s.