Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 15
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 9
No consensus yet.
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 3
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 6,640
John Hughes strip-mines familiar terrain -- in this case his own past successes -- in this comedy that Hughes produced and scripted, directed by Bryan Gordon. Frank Whaley stars as Jim Dodge, a 21-year-old con-man who goes from job to job but likes to put on a facade of success. As Career Opportunities begins, he has just been fired from another job and has been hired by the local Target store manager (played by an un-credited John Candy) as the night cleanup boy. After the manager locks Jim in
Mar 29, 1991 Wide
Oct 27, 1998
MCA Universal Home Video
All Critics (15) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (9)
[The film] has plenty of absorbing characters, smart, snappy dialog and delightful stretches of comic foolery.
Scenes like the one in which Jimmy's father eats fried chicken dipped in peanut butter should appeal to kids of all ages.
Jennifer Connelly is very easy to look at. Career Opportunities isn't.
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.
Let's be honest, the only reasons to watch this movie are Jennifer Connelly in a skintight tank top rollerskating and riding an electric pony.
An entertaining film with interesting characters the viewer can actually care about.
Mediocre teen pic, with a memorable Connelly performance
Tolerable only for Jennifer Connelly.
Paper-thin premise entertains thanks to a game Whaley and a luminous Connelly.
Aside from the interminable music videos, set to a constant, very loud Top-40 soundtrack, much of the film is so surrealistic and weird that you may think certain scenes are meant to be of daydreams.
I loved this light romantic comedy, Connelly is beautiful and charming and cute, and it's funny, what's not to like?
September 6, 2010Super Reviewer
This could of been a Hughes all time classic, I enjoyed it right up to the part Whaley stopped parading around in his underwear, (oh this sick mind of mine.) I'll say it loud and clear to everyone who has failed to realize it, " Whaley Rules! ". I think this movie loses what ever it had going for it, when a straight
August 8, 2009Super Reviewer
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