CAREER OPPORTUNITIES - 1991
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES - Belongs in the Unemployment Line
Director John Hughes, who gave us the box office blockbuster Home Alone this past year is trying to repeat his success with Career Opportunities.
Frank Whaley plays a 21 year old misfit living at home. He doesn't appear to have any aspirations in life. After being fired from several jobs he is hired as a night clean up worker for a discount department store.
Things are beginning to look up for him when, during his first night on the job, the girl (Jennifer Connelly) of his dreams gets locked in the store with him. Then to top it off they have to battle two bungling burglars. Sound familiar? We saw it in much better form in Home Alone. I'm not sure what Hughes was thinking with this movie? He has given us such fine work with The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Some Kind of Wonderful. Maybe this was just filler in between hit films?
Whaley and Connelly are appealing and put forth a good effort but there is no where for them to go in this farce of a movie.
Director John Hughes, who gave us the box office blockbuster Home Alone this past year is trying to repeat his success with Career Opportunities.
Frank Whaley plays a 21 year old misfit living at home. He doesn't appear to have any aspirations in life. After being fired from several jobs he is hired as a night clean up worker for a discount department store.
Things are beginning to look up for him when, during his first night on the job, the girl (Jennifer Connelly) of his dreams gets locked in the store with him. Then to top it off they have to battle two bungling burglars. Sound familiar? We saw it in much better form in Home Alone. I'm not sure what Hughes was thinking with this movie? He has given us such fine work with The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Some Kind of Wonderful. Maybe this was just filler in between hit films?
Whaley and Connelly are appealing and put forth a good effort but there is no where for them to go in this farce of a movie.
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