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Frank Whaley as Jim Dodge; Jennifer Connelly as Josie McClellan; Dermot Mulroney as Nestor Pyle; Kieran Mulroney as Gil Kinney; John M. Jackson as Bud Dodge; Jenny O'Hara as Dotty Dodge; Noble Willingham as Roger Roy McClellan; Barry Corbin as Officer Don; Wilbur Fitzgerald as Bob Bosenbeck; William Forsythe as custodian
Mar 29, 1991 · Career Opportunities: Directed by Bryan Gordon. With Frank Whaley, Jennifer Connelly, Dermot Mulroney, Kieran Mulroney. Jim is the dorky son of a local cement contractor who lives at home and has no direction.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Bryan Gordon
- 1991-03-29
Frank Whaley stars as Jim Dodge, a smooth-talking small-town guy with a knack for putting up a front -but no talent for holding down a job. But Jim's life suddenly takes a turn for the...
Horror. Sci-fi. Career Opportunities is a 1991 American romantic comedy film starring Frank Whaley in his first lead role and co-starring Jennifer Connelly. It was written and co-produced by John Hughes and directed by Bryan Gordon. In the film, Whaley plays Jim Dodge, a persuasive but irresponsible kid who...
Frank Whaley stars as Jim Dodge, a smooth-talking small-town guy with a knack for putting up a front -but no talent for holding down a job. But 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 ...
- Bryan Gordon
- Frank Whaley
Mar 29, 1991 · 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.
Unknown to him, young adult Jim Dodge is renowned as the town liar of Monroe in spouting fantastical dreams about his life as reality. Unable to hold a job often because of those lies, he likes certain very basic aspects of his life, especially still living at home, much to his father Bud Dodge's chagrin, Bud, a concrete truck driver, who just wants him out of the house to be a productive ...
