Career Opportunities

Career Opportunities Information

Career Opportunities is a 1991 American romantic comedy film starring Frank Whaley in his first lead role and co-starred Jennifer Connelly in one of her first. It was written and co-produced by John Hughes and directed by Bryan Gordon.

Plot

Jim Dodge (Frank Whaley) is a self-proclaimed "people person" and dreamer who is perceived as lazy, good for nothing. After being fired from numerous low-paying jobs, Jim is given the choice by his father, Bud Dodge (John M. Jackson), to either land a job at the local Target or be put on a bus to St. Louis.

Jim is hired as Night Cleanup Boy at Target. On his first shift at his new job, Jim is locked, alone, in the store by his boss. The good news is that he encounters Josie McClellan (Jennifer Connelly), the stereotypical "spoiled rich girl," who is someone he has known all his life in school, where they were worlds apart. Josie had spent the past several hours asleep in a dressing room after backing out of shoplifting some merchandise in a half-hearted attempt to run away from her abusive father, Roger Roy McClellan (Noble Willingham). Josie and Jim begin to connect with each other, realising they are not so different, and Josie convinces Jim to run away with her. They begin to form a romantic relationship, and proceed to enjoy the freedom of having a store this size to themselves.

However, things become complicated when two incompetent crooks, Nestor Pyle and Gil Kinney (brothers Dermot and Kieran Mulroney, respectively), break into the store and hold the two hostage.

Cast

Frank Whaley as Jim Dodge
Jennifer Connelly as Josie McClellan
Dermot Mulroney as Nestor Pyle
Kieran Mulroney as Gil Kinney
John M. Jackson as Bud Dodge
Jenny O'Hara as Dotty Dodge
Noble Willingham as Roger Roy McClellan
William Forsythe as the janitor
John Candy (uncredited) as the manager of the Target store

Reception

Career Opportunities was a modest success at the time of its release making $11,336,986 in the North American market.

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