Jim is the dorky son of a local cement contractor who lives at home and has no direction. Josie is the gorgeous daughter of a wealthy businessman who dreams of leaving town. When Jim is locked inside a Target store on his first night as the overnight janitor, he discovers Josie, who fell asleep while contemplating shoplifting. Now locked in together, the pair learns they have a lot in common. Little do they know that two petty criminals are on the lam and looking for a place ... (Full plot summary below)
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Jim is the dorky son of a local cement contractor who lives at home and has no direction. Josie is the gorgeous daughter of a wealthy businessman who dreams of leaving town. When Jim is locked inside a Target store on his first night as the overnight janitor, he discovers Josie, who fell asleep while contemplating shoplifting. Now locked in together, the pair learns they have a lot in common. Little do they know that two petty criminals are on the lam and looking for a place to hide.
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| Chicago TribuneRene CarlosLike Home Alone, Career Opportunities is inoffensive, breezy and contains a funny cameo appearance by John Candy. The new film starts out well but falls apart midway because the serviceable situations that Hughes and director Bryan Gordon set up don't much go anywhere. |
| Reel Times: Reflections on CinemaMark PfeifferCareer Opportunities plays like a hodgepodge of Hughes' greatest hits. |
| Three Movie BuffsScott NashLet's be honest, the only reasons to watch this movie are Jennifer Connelly in a skintight tank top rollerskating and riding an electric pony. |
| Los Angeles TimesPeter RainerThere are worse people to be locked inside a movie with than these two, but they’re not given anything to do . You don’t want to hear about how they can’t relate to their fathers; you don’t want to hear about their fantasies of ditching the Midwest and jetting to L.A. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe PollackIn a sense, John Hughes doesn’t produce movies anymore. He produces entertainment machines, and Career Opportunities has been shamelessly patched together — like Frankenstein’s monster — from bits and pieces of Home Alone and The Breakfast Club. |
| VarietyVariety Staff[The film] has plenty of absorbing characters, smart, snappy dialog and delightful stretches of comic foolery. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonIf we didn't know from other, better Hughes movies what the themes and emotional registers were supposed to be, it's hard to say that this would be able to supply them itself. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonJennifer Connelly is very easy to look at. Career Opportunities isn't. Go see the standee. |
| New York TimesJanet MaslinMr. Whaley has to work too hard to be antic in the early, Ferris Bueller-type scenes, but he gets much better in more easygoing moments. The gorgeous Ms. Connelly is more model than actress, but by those standards she is relatively lively. |
| User Reviewryu9376This is literally one of my favorite comedies, as well as one of my all-time favorite films. Frank Whaley was another underrated actor. He truly was hilariously funny in this film, & Jennifer Connelly was simply beautiful. |
