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By MARCUS SESSION
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Writer/director/producer John
Hughes has a reputation for making
films about mixtures of odd
and normal people encountering
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path to self-discovery.
Career Opportunities has all of
these things, which would normally
make it a good film. However,
it is not.
Frank Whaley plays Jim Dodge,
a 21-year-old small-town boy still
in a small town and still living at
home. Inveterately lazy, he is capable
of getting a job, but he just
can't seem to keep one. In fact,
one gas station owner tells Dodge
he would hire him in a second if
he hadn't already fired him so
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Dodge gets a job as the night cleanup
boy at a local Target store. On
his first night on the job, the bosses
don't trust him with the keys,
and he is locked in. Alone.
Or so they think. Josie McClellan
(Jennifer Connelly), who is not
only so beautiful it's distracting,
but who is the daughter of the
town's richest man and a tease to
boot, has fallen asleep in one of
the dressing rooms after a busy
day of shoplifting.
Into their lives this fateful night
come robbers Nestor and Gil (Dermont
and Keiran Mulroney), who
are wanted by the police for killing
a clerk at a convenience store. Seeing
the lights in the store, they
come in through the loading dock
(the store's not actually locked)
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the midst of their Target fantasy.
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