Career Opportunities (1991) on Netflix
Jim Dodge takes a night janitor job at Target to keep from being sent to his uncle. Locked in after hours, he finds Josie McClellan, who fell asleep in a dressing room.
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Plot summary
Josie McClellan is the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, Roger Roy McClellan, and she is unhappy at home. After backing out of shoplifting, she dozes off in a dressing room at the Target. Jim Dodge, twenty-one and known around town as a liar, is told by his father, Bud, to take a job at the Target or go to work for his uncle. He is hired as the night cleanup boy, and on his first shift the head custodian locks him inside until seven in the morning. There he meets Josie. The two talk and find they both want out of their lives, and Josie, who has $52,000 in her purse, proposes they leave for Los Angeles in the morning. Her father and the town sheriff search for her all night.
Cast
- Reid Binionas Cal Dodge
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Career Opportunities (1991)
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- Screenwriter Hughes tried to have his own name removed from the finished film after calling it "cheap and vulgar," but Universal refused because his name had suddenly become valuable in the wake of Home Alone's success.
- Filming took place inside a real, operating Target store during the Christmas shopping season, and some actual store employees stayed after hours to appear as background extras.
- Writer Hughes hired Gordon to direct purely because Gordon's short film Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall had won the Academy Award for Best Live Short in 1987, even though it would be Gordon's first feature.
- The Target store used as the film's main setting, store #378, has since closed, and the building was eventually repurposed as a church.
- Facing a weak film, the studio's marketing leaned on a suggestive image of co-star Connelly posed astride a kiddie riding horse, prompting Rolling Stone to accuse the campaign of selling the movie on sex appeal alone.
