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Name: Career Opportunities
Released: 1991-3-29
Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Frank Whaley, Dermot Mulroney, Barry Corbin, Noble Willingham

Career Opportunities

PG-13
1h 22m
1991

39%

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The town con and the town beauty team up to outwit a half-wit pair of would-be burglars in the comedy Career Opportunities from writer/producer John Hughes (The Breakfast Club). Jim Dodge (Frank Whaley) is a smooth-talking, small-town guy with a knack for putting up a front but no talent for holding down a job. Jim's life suddenly takes a turn for the fantastic when he finds himself locked inside the local department store one night with Josie McClellan (Jennifer Connelly), the daughter of the town's wealthiest citizen. When this unlikely pair is treated to a surprise visit from two bargain-hunting burglars (Dermot Mulroney and Kieran Mulroney), the laughs keep escalating in this delightfully entertaining look at small-town America.

Director:

Bryan Gordon

Producer:

John Hughes, A. Hunt Lowry

Writer:

John Hughes

Cast:

Jennifer Connelly, Frank Whaley, Dermot Mulroney, Barry Corbin, Noble Willingham, John M. Jackson, William Forsythe, Jenny O'Hara, Kieran Mulroney

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

39%

Reviews

Common Sense Media

Jeffrey M. Anderson

[Connelly] goes a long way toward making Career Opportunities watchable.

The fact that John Hughes tried (and failed) to have his name removed from this movie tells you pretty much everything you need to know.

June 19, 2021

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

Mark Pfeiffer

Career Opportunities plays like a hodgepodge of Hughes' greatest hits.

If 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.