《《Risque Business (1989)》》Storyline
" Shaye suggested that she would reprise her starring role as Nancy Thompson: "You""re he star" - but she was very unsure, now that she was a mother.[Note: This film was competing with the recent memory of the irreverent and whimsicalButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)that had completely modernized the legendary American western, with humorous dialogue, a pop soundtrack, and slapstick." Harry""s appeal to Max""s needy cravings for attention worked, when he begged: "I need you.You are my only chance that I have at surviving....I know what it""s like to be thrown away!"Although Harry was seized by security guards, Electro""s body disintegrated and flowed into the conduits of the surrounding equipment - sparks of electricity electrocuted Kafka and the other guards.We just sort of go along and nothing happens.We""re in a terrible rut.It""s been on my mind for months.What""s gonna be our future?Father: (consoling) Oh, come now, Charlie, things aren""t as bad as hat.The bank gave me a raise last January.Charlie: Money.How can you talk about money when I""m talking about souls? We eat and sleep and that""s about all.We don""t even have any real conversations.We just talk...Father:...and work.Charlie: Yes, poor mother, she works like a dog, just like a dog...When she comes back, it will be the same thing.Dinner, then dishes, then bed.I don""t see how she stands it.You know, she""s really a wonderful woman.I mean, she""s not just a mother.And I think we ought to do something for her.Don""t you think we should?Father: Yeah.What were you thinking of doing for her?Charlie: Oh, nothing I supppose.I guess we""ll just have to wait for a miracle - or something...I don""t believe in good intentions anymore.All I""m waiting for now is a miracle.Suddenly, Charlie""s spinsterish, talkative and oblivious mother Emma Newton (Patricia Collinge) [Emma was the name of Hitchcock""s mother - she died in England during filming] makes a dramatic appearance at the bedroom door, speaking her first words [and foreshadowing an "accident" that will occur later in the film]: "Those back stairs are steep.