Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

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

gwnightscream This 1991 comedy stars Frank Whaley, Jennifer Connelly, Dermot Mulroney and Kieran Mulroney. Whaley (Field of Dreams) plays Jim, a young man from Illinois who is not only a compulsive liar, but dreams of making it big. Soon, Jim is forced by his parents to get a job or he'll have to move out. He ends up working as an overnight store janitor and finds himself in a hell of a first night when he reunites with school crush, Josie (Connelly) who tries shoplifting and faces 2 inept, but dangerous criminals, Nestor (D. Mulroney) and Gil (K. Mulroney). This isn't a bad, amusing comedy with a decent cast & the late, John Candy (Planes, Trains & Automobiles), the late, Noble Willingham (The Last Boy Scout), William Forsythe (The Devil's Rejects) and Barry Corbin (Stir Crazy) also appear. I recommend this.

Michael Frank Whaley and a few other overlooked ones the Hughes-package (aka Brat Pack) land roles here with emerging stars the Mulroney Bros. The film has the classic Hughes devices of the solitary character posed before a background of merchandise or amusing themselves with objects that are actually merchandise of functional objects. Whatever happened to Leggs and dancing in the CD aisles? The music is reflective of the transitioning period of the late 1980's and early 1990's where hard rock, "synth pop" and alternative rock were duking it out on the charts. If you're lost on the placement of the story--in typical Hughes (R.I.P.) Midwest territories, or the aesthetics, the subtle and smooth-flowing moral lessons are easily missed (am I the only one who sees similar casting among the many leading young women in the Hughes films--Moore, Connelly, Sara?). Generally, Hughes films are about revealing the common ties among individuals who live in distinctly different social and economic strata where conflict resolves into a solidarity.I find it interesting that I watched this AFTER watching a modern "living as a boy, who is old enough to live like a man" film titled, "Failure To Launch," an attempt to close the chapter on the pandemic of young "adults" returning to the nest, while this film seemed to signal the start of the pandemic. A few unique cases here or there, then by the mid-1990's, we saw the 30-year old "men" trailing behind their mothers to grocery stores or other chores. My other perspective on the content of this film.

Mr-Fusion On the whole, "Career Opportunities" is disposable fluff; a half-assed John Hughes production from a guy whose heart clearly isn't in the work anymore. It's uncharacteristic of the man in that the characters are unrelatable, the hot-girl-falls-for-the-big-talking-loser storyline is contrived, and this thing just crawls ... and then ends abruptly. It's 80 minutes of jokes that just don't land, and it's no surprise that both Hughes and Jennifer Connelly have disowned the flick. But both leads put forth the effort. Frank Whaley strives with what he's got, and Connelly adds playful sexuality to her dialogue. Everyone in the supporting cast knows they're here for a paycheck, but the stars at least make a go of it. And John Candy shows up for a very pleasantly surprising cameo in the film's beginning. The problem there is that his scene finishes and we never see him again. Man, that guy is like a beam of sunshine in every movie he's in. He makes it look so easy.But let's not beat around the bush here. The real reason this movie made any money at the box office (and is still talked about today) is the 20 year-old Jennifer Connelly. This doe-eyed specimen is unbelievably sexy, and we can all be thankful to the Internet gods for the horse-riding .gifs floating around in cyberspace. Just like the frozen-in-time Target filming location, this movie is a celluloid preservation of her pre-anorexic youthful attractiveness. Her beauty is nothing short of sublime in an otherwise forgetful piece of early-'90s "meh". 4/10