Career Opportunities (1991)
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Cast
as Jim Dodge
as Josie McClellan
as Nestor Pyle
as Gil Kinney
as Bud Dodge
as Dotty Dodge
as Roger Roy McClellan
as Penny Dodge
as Cal Dodge
as Officer Don
as Lorraine
as Bob Bosenbeck
as Dave Hockner
as Otis
as 1st Boy
as 2nd Boy
as 3rd Boy
as Gas Station Owner
as Custodian
as Farmer in Cafe
as Stock Boy
as Girl in Car
as Boy in Car
as Store Manager
as Voiceover
Critic Reviews for Career Opportunities
All Critics (16) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (10)
[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.
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.
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.
Audience Reviews for Career Opportunities
Frank Whaley is likable as a perpetual truth stretcher who takes a job is there overnight janitor at a target where he encounters beautiful Richgirl and want to be shoplifter Jennifer Connelly. they spend the night talking about each other's problems iand breaking down and breaking down their misconceptions of one another. John Hughes's script still has some moments of teen insight that he was allotted for in the 80s but The fact is nothing really happens Plugwise here , which was obviously a concern to him hence the unwise introduction of two Deadly criminals during the last act. So this movie hasn't remembered fondly alongside 16 candles or the breakfast club instead people with good reason tender remember Tonnele his face which is shown in the close up more times than I can count , and her mesmerizing ride on the hobbyhorse, although the roller skating scene and especially the its hilarious expected conclusion/collision is my favorite moment.
Super Reviewer
Nice good time. A good chance to see Frank Whaley talent in this characteristic Hughes romantic comedy.
Super Reviewer
I loved this light romantic comedy, Connelly is beautiful and charming and cute, and it's funny, what's not to like?
Super Reviewer
Career Opportunities Quotes
| Custodian: | Are you a slacker? |
| Jim Dodge: | No, I'm a Presbyterian. |
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