kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** The very sight of the drop dead gorgeous and ultra sexy 20 year old Jennefer Connelly, as spoiled little rich girl Josie McClellan, riding and rolling on a electronic pony was more then worth the price of admission then the duration of the entire movie. Josie gets herself locked up in the Target's ladies dressing room trying to shoplift a $20.00 pair of ladies underpants even though she had as much as $52,000.00 of cash on her to pay for it and ends up having the run of the place. That's until two crooks Nester & Gil, Demont & Kieran Mulroney who are obviously brothers, show up-after hiding and smoking pot in the store men's room- to rip the place off.The good for nothing $4.40 cent an hour night clean-up boy Jim Dodge, Frank Whaley, on his first day or night on the job ends up getting stuck-lucky guy-with Josie for the entire night that's a lot more then he ever bargained for. And in the end goes off with her to sunny California to start a new life as well as career opportunity in the up and coming multi-billion dollar industry of Silicon Valley. The fact that Josie comes from the richest family in the state of Georgia is nothing compared in what she got from hooking up with the cute clean-up boy Frank who showed her just what a good time, in running for her life and safety from the two Mulroney brothers as well as the local police, rally is.Jenniffer Connelly who just was seen in the movie "The Racketeer" who soon rocketed to the top as the hottest actress in Hollywood in this so-so movie about America's youth. As for actor Frank Whaley with the exception of playing accused but not proved JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in movies like "JFK" & "Fatal Deception Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald" he never had a part in a film as good or satisfying with a co-star as Connelly as the lowly Target night time clean-up boy Jim Dodge in "Career Opportunities".

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.

statuskuo What I really dislike about a lot of these movies is that the parents are always portrayed as zombiefied dolts. UNTIL, they prove they are more aware of their children as they realize. The Paul Dooley character in "16 Candles" comes to mind.The other are these really tiresome archetypes of high school. The geek and the rich bitch. I grew up around these times and I was unaware that there these polarizing groups. No one really cared about class, as much as they cared about just getting tail. And the rich girls at our school didn't care. They went for the rebels (which I guess is what it came down to in "Breakfast Club."). I just never seem to see what these Hughes-like characters are. Just one dimensional buffoons. Frank Whaley, in typical nebbish way, is passable as a Duckie character. He seems to aware that he's playing the town joke. That he should be a salesman due to his ability to lie (unconvincingly, mind you). Just one ridiculous lie after another that fits well with television, but seems weird on the big screen. Anyway...One music vid after another. Best one, as others have mentioned, is Jennifer Connelly on roller skates. Then her riding the mechanical horse. You extract these scenes and play in loop for an hour an a half, and it would rate a 10 star movie.

TxMike I have always been a big Jennifer Connelly fan, starting with "The Rocketeer". This lightweight romantic comedy was made between that movie, and "The Hot Spot" where young Jennifer showed off several of her own hot spots. She is still lovely at 40+ but was just delicious-looking at around 20, not so thin and a somewhat rounder face.Frank Whaley is Jim Dodge , a janitor at Target (filmed in a Target store in Monroe, Georgia) and is locked in for his first night on the job. Also locked in is Jennifer Connelly as Josie McClellan, daughter of the richest guy in town. Josie is being a bit rebellious, and dad is looking for her.Old faithful Barry Corbin is Officer Don who is helping dad try to find her. While Jim and Josie are getting to know each other ... they actually were high school classmates but ran in different circles ... two fugitives with guns break in, Dermot Mulroney as Nestor Pyle and Kieran Mulroney as Gil Kinney. This creates even more silly situations. This is not a good movie, but it is entertaining if you like Jennifer Connelly, as she spends most of the movie's running time looking pretty, and there are ample close-up shots of her pretty, smiling face. And that white tank-top. Saw it on the MoMax channel.