Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Hulkeasexo it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

dukeakasmudge Career Opportunities was the 1st movie I've seen with Frank Whaley & I've been a longtime fan of his ever since.I will watch any movie with him in it because of Career Opportunities.Career Opportunities is a great movie & 1 of my all time favorites.I saw it shortly after it 1st came out on cable TV & I instantly enjoyed it.Who wouldn't love to be locked in a store all night long by yourself or (Maybe) with somebody else & be able to do whatever you wanted.Eating off the shelves, playing with toys, riding bikes around the store, setting up your own in-store living room & playing video games or watching movies, etc, etc, etc. I have it on DVD, VHS & anytime it comes on 1 of the movie channels, I watch it if nothing else is on.It was a GREAT movie when Jim & Josie were by themselves but loses steam after the burglars show up.It's a bit disappointing but no matter what, I'd tell ANYBODY & EVERYBODY if they're thinking of watching Career Opportunities to check it out.In my opinion, this movie is a classic

clarkejb Career Opportunities is a film worth a watch for a few key reasons. One reason is because the film is one of the last major projects of the great John Hughes. I wanted to take time out to watch this film recently because I never saw it when it was released back in 1991. I do not think I was ever aware of the film back then. As I watched the film, I asked myself why John Hughes chose to write and produce it. I think John wanted movie goers to explore the question, "How would his teenage characters, from films like "Pretty in Pink," "Sixteen Candles," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," and "The Breakfast Club" feel about their lives and their prospects for their future after their high school years are behind them?" The Jim Dodge character is like many memorable characters created by John Hughes: A handsome, witty, fast-talking, and extroverted charlatan. Unlike The popular and successful Ferris Bueller character, Jim Dodge doesn't fool most of the people in his life. People see through his charlatan antics and regard him as a disingenuous liar. Jim Dodge is also from a modest working class family. The Jim Dodge character is as engaging as the Ferris Bueller character, but he is not as funny or as entertaining to watch because his charlatan behavior is unsuccessful. Jim Dodge was not cool in high school, he doesn't have any friends his age, and he doesn't have a gorgeous girlfriend like the Sloane Peterson character from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." I think Hughes wrote the Jim Dodge character to represent the slacker stereotype of Generation X. The Jim Dodge character is in his early 20s, he lives at home, he has few job prospects, and he lacks tangible goals other than a general wish to be credible and successful. The Josie McClellan character is strong-willed female lead who is similar to a lot of other John Hughes characters. Josie is an effortlessly beautiful young woman with a bad attitude. She believes her ideal high school experience means that her best days are behind her. She and Jim Dodge share a tremendous uncertainty about their futures, and they are both loners. Despite Josie's beauty and wealth, she feels as alone as Jim Dodge and she is also a slacker without clear goals. Jim and Josie find each other and bond within strange circumstances in "Career Opportunities." I think the film is really about how these two characters connect as fellow struggling Gen-Xers. I think this movie failed to be a big hit because Hughes offers no clear answers for the Jim and Josie characters other than the idea that falling in love offers hope for both of their futures. The laughs are not frequent enough in the film and the music sequences are too numerous. The title of the film is also misleading. Regardless, this film is definitely worth a watch if you were born between 1966 and 1974.

Uriah43 "Jim Dodge" (Frank Whaley) is an unambitious but very creative young man who can't seem to hold a job because he prefers to live in a fantasy world. Even though he is 21 years-old he still lives with his parents and doesn't really care to move out. One day his father, "Bud Dodge" (John M. Jackson) forces him to get a job at a nearby Target store as the "night cleanup boy". When he reports for his first shift the head custodian locks him in the store and Jim finds himself all alone with a huge area to clean. At least he thinks he's all alone. Meanwhile, a beautiful young woman by the name of "Josie McClellan" (Jennifer Connelly) is having problems with her rich and physically abusive father, "Roger Roy McClellan" (Noble Willingham) so she decides to venture to Target with the intent to embarrass him by getting arrested for shop-lifting. As luck would have it, she falls asleep in the clothing department and wakes up to find Jim skating through the aisles in his underwear. But that's just the beginning of the adventure for both of them. Anyway, rather than disclose what happens next and possibly spoil the picture for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this was a nice little comedy with a definite 80's flavor. While Frank Whaley was amusing, the main attraction was clearly Jennifer Connelly as she was simply gorgeous. On the other hand, the conversation between the two of them sometimes seemed awkward and forced. Likewise, because this film is so light and breezy there isn't much depth to it at all. All things considered then, I rate this movie as average.

TheUnknown837-1 "Career Opportunities" has one of the most insufferably awful third acts that I have seen in a long, long while. The end of this picture, which is sort of a sly 80-minute Target commercial, concludes with two young people in love (Frank Whaley and Jennifer Connelly) trapped inside of a supermarket with two bungling burglars (Dermot Mulroney and Kiernan Mulroney). The burglars are the consummate villains for an idiotic comedy, and the whole plot of the third act, with the Mr. Whaley and Miss Connelly attempting to outsmart them using wits, deception, as well as sexual temptations is utterly dreadful. The last thirty minutes of this picture drags its feet so heavily—exhausted with its own plot mechanics—that it seems all too eager to end itself, and so it does. "Career Opportunities" suffocates itself with its climax, draining all of the inertia and charm that I uncovered in the first hour of the movie. Only a truly bad ending can do that.The initial two-thirds is well-assembled, even if it is mostly a bloated Target advertisement. I wonder who funded the picture. Frank Whaley and Jennifer Connelly give superb performances as two troubled young adults, the former a son of a ne'er-do-well family who cannot hold a job to save his life, the latter as a wealthy socialite's daughter who will stop at nothing to enrage her emotionally distanced parent. I enjoyed the setup with Mr. Whaley getting a last-ditch job as the night clean-up boy at Target (after misbelieving that he was getting a six-digit executive salary when the hiring manager mixes up the applications), being locked inside the supermarket, and messing around instead of doing his job. Miss Connelly, who fell asleep while shoplifting (once again trying to infuriate her father), finds him skating around in a tutu. With a girl as pretty as Miss Connelly hanging around, Mr. Whaley, of course, keeps shirking his responsibilities and the movie evolves into a sort of retrospective on the characters' pasts with what could have been and what just might be around the corner in their lives.Of course, that's all before the burglars arrive and the movie completely goes downhill. It is a real shame, because again, the first hour has a subtle charm. Mr. Whaley is excellent as the fast-talking, self-delusional hotshot who slowly realizes he's not all he makes himself out to be. He's sort of a ramped-up, modern Andy Hardy. Miss Connelly is also very good, although the screenplay frequently forces her to play the sexual teasing a little too far. At one point, she taunts the burglars upon a coin-operated horse ride, and the camera only shows her from the waist up as the ride thrusts her body up and down in a manner that is much too blatantly suggestive. They have some nice chemistry together. I just wish the filmmakers had had the wits to rewrite the third act and save "Career Opportunities" from plummeting into utter failure.Is it a complete failure with so much going for it in the beginning? From a fair standpoint, perhaps not. But judging from how limitlessly exhausted I became and how eager I was to see the movie end after those two robbers broke into the store, it just might be. I must give credit to the filmmakers—and the two stars—for what they did so stupendously well at the beginning, but cannot overlook the egregious errors that consume not just the end, but the whole resolution.