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Mar 29, 2021 · According to Hunt Lowry, who produced Career Opportunities with Hughes, that’s precisely the reaction the studio hoped to inspire when the movie arrived in theaters on March 29, 1991. “That ...
Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalized after she falls asleep in a Target dressing room. She awakens to find herself locked in the store overnight with the janitor, Jim, the town "no hoper" and liar.
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Career Opportunities. According to Spy magazine, John Hughes was unhappy at how this film turned out, and asked Universal to remove his name from it. They refused. Dermot Mulroney and Kieran Mulroney who play the wanted criminals in this film are brothers in real life. When Josie is looking through the cassette tapes, one of the visible titles ...
1 hr 23 min. 5.8 (17,190) 41. Career Opportunities is a 1991 comedy-drama movie directed by Bryan Gordon and written by John Hughes. The movie follows Jim Dodge (Frank Whaley), an ambitious young man living in a small town who dreams of leaving everything behind to start a new life in the big city. Jim takes a job as a night janitor at the ...
Jul 3, 2021 · All these many years later, Career Opportunities is arriving to Blu-ray. Even in high definition with uncompressed audio playing up its very Hughes-ian soundtrack, the movie passes like a breeze: two-thirds recycled air, one-third body odor. No surprise, considering that most of the movie takes place overnight inside a locked-and-sealed Target ...
Mar 29, 1991 · 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 the store overnight, he goes on a binge -- playing with the skates, eating candy, watching television, and blasting the stereos.
