Career Opportunities

Career Opportunities is a 1991 film directed by John Hughes and starring Frank Whaley and beautiful and talented Jennifer Connelly. I first saw this years ago on Showtime,and it seemed like it played all the time on cable for years. But I never really hear anyone ever talking about it. So when I found the DVD at Biglots for 3 bucks I had to pick it up.

Frank plays Jim Dodge who is the town loser. His dad tells him he has to get a job or he will be kicked out. So Jim gets a job doing after hours cleaning at the local Target. It is his first night and he is having fun being all alone in the huge store. But it turns out that Jennifer Connelly,who plays Josie, has also been locked up in the store. Frank has had a major crush on Josie for years, and really what straight male hasn't had a crush on Ms Connelly at one time. It seems she is tired of her father and was gonna try to get caught shoplifting so her father would finally pay some attention to her. Well she ended up falling asleep in the changing room. They have some fun ,but then two stupid crooks break into the store and hold the two young adults hostage.

This seems to be one of the few John Hughes films that has no following and is kinda forgotten about now. But it is one of my favorites from Mr Hughes. It is a very funny film and who hasn't thought about how much fun it would be to be locked in a store all night. It seems that most guys I talk to that even remember this film only really remember one scene where Josie is riding one of the kids rides that is a horse the bucks back and forth. She is riding this while wearing a tight fitted tank top,and I can see why this scene is burned into the memory banks of most male viewers. Career Opportunities is a fun film and gets a B+