Career Opportunities [Blu-ray]

Director: Bryan Gordon Bryan Gordon

Overview

John Hughes strip-mines familiar terrain -- in this case his own past successes -- in this comedy that Hughes produced and scripted, directed by Bryan Gordon. 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. 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. But then Jim discovers that he is not the only person in the store. Also there is rich girl Josie McClellan (Jennifer Connelly) who is spending the night in the store to get her father worried about her. Although Jim knew Josie in high school, when Josie wouldn't even give him the time of day, here they click like two castanets and they romp around the store aisles to a pounding rock score. But just at the moment when Jim and Josie plan to run away together with the $52,000 Josie holds in her purse, two low-rent comic thieves -- Nestor Pyle (Dermot Mulroney) and Gil Kinney (Kieran Mulroney) -- break into the store and Jim and Josie decide to stick it out, saving the store from the bumbling crooks.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/22/2021
UPC:	0738329253578
Original Release:	1991
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Language:	English
Time:	1:23:00
Sales rank:	4,631

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Frank Whaley	Jim Dodge
Jennifer Connelly	Josie McClellan
Dermot Mulroney	Nestor Pyle,Gil Kinney
John M. Jackson	Bud Dodge
Jenny O'Hara	Dotty Dodge
Noble Willingham	Roger Roy McClellan
Nada Despotovich	Penny Dodge
Reid Binion	Cal Dodge
Barry Corbin	Officer Don
Denise Galik	Lorraine
Wilbur Fitzgerald	Bob Bosenbeck
Dan Albright	Dave Hockner
Marc Clement	Otis
Andrew Winton	1st Boy
Andy Greenway	2nd Boy
Danny Nelson	Gas Station Owner
William Forsythe	Custodian
Lou Walker	Farmer in Cafe
Benji Wilhoite	Stock Boy
Heidi Meyer Gilbert	Girl in Car,Boy in Car,Boy in Car
John Candy	Store Manager
RonReaco Lee	Boy #3
Leigh French	Voices
David Arnott	Voiceover
Joanna Lipari	Additional Voices
Coleby Lombardo	Additional Voices
David McCharen	Additional Voices
Paige Pollack	Voiceover
Gary Schwartz	Additional Voices
Jonathan Stark	Additional Voices
Royce D. Applegate	Voiceover

Technical Credits

Bryan Gordon	Director
John Hughes	Producer
Lora Lee	Executive Producer,Producer
A. Hunt Lowry	Producer,Producer
Andi Capoziello	Producer
Cliff T.E. Roseman	Producer
Scott Dale	Stunts
Troy Gilbert	Stunts