Risky Business

In an effort for Tom Cruise (who was 20 during filming) to look more "teenage" in appearance, the producers put him though an unusual bit of physical training. Cruise worked out seven days a week, in order to lose ten pounds. Once that had been accomplished, he immediately ceased working out and ate extremely fatty foods in order to add a layer of baby fat. This is how he achieved that "fresh-faced" teenage look.

When Joel is the den talking to the college admissions guy Lana walks into the room and closes the door behind her. Her long, blond hair is swinging around in the upper right of the screen. But an instant later all her hair is tucked up into a black hat.

CBS edited 2 minutes from this film for its 1985 network television premiere.

Featured in At the Movies: Movies That Changed the Movies (1984)