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Career Opportunities

Jim is the dorky son of a local cement contractor who lives at home and has no direction. Josie is the gorgeous daughter of a wealthy businessman who dreams of leaving town. They find they have a lot in common.

Director

Bryan Gordon

Year

Genre

comedy, romance

Box Office

$11,336,986

Production

Hughes Entertainment

Awards

N/A

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Jim Dodge

Josie McClellan

Jennifer Connelly

Nestor Pyle

Dermot Mulroney

Gil Kinney

Kieran Mulroney

Bud Dodge

John M. Jackson

Dotty Dodge

Roger Roy McClellan

Noble Willingham

Penny Dodge

Nada Despotovich

Cal Dodge

Officer Don

Lorraine (as Denise Galik-Furey)

Bob Bosenbeck

Wilbur Fitzgerald

Dave Hockner

Otis

Boy #1

Boy #2

Boy #3

Gas Station Owner

Custodian

William Forsythe

Farmer in Cafe

Stock Boy

Girl in Car

Heidi Meyer Gilbert

Boy in Car (as Troy M. Gilbert)

Voiceover (voice)

Royce D. Applegate

Voiceover (voice)

Additional Voices (voice)

Additional Voices (voice)

Additional Voices (voice)

Kenneth W. Ford Jr.

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Additional Voices (voice)

Coleby Lombardo

Additional Voices (voice)

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Additional Voices (voice)

C.D. Marsh

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Jim Dodge Josie Mcclellan Custodian Officer Don Roger Roy Mcclellan Bud Dodge Gil Kinney Nestor Pyle

A little bit of danger - Career Opportunities

A little bit of danger

Honey, I want you
to meet Bill, uh... - Career Opportunities

Honey, I want you to meet Bill, uh...

Dave. - Career Opportunities

Josie? - Career Opportunities

You pull another stunt
like you did today, - Career Opportunities

You pull another stunt like you did today,

All right, out! - Career Opportunities

All right, out!

Are you a slacker - Career Opportunities

Are you a slacker

I'm getting a feeling that you want me out of your life - Career Opportunities

I'm getting a feeling that you want me out of your life

♪ You got to wash with
The crocodile in the river ♪ - Career Opportunities

♪ You got to wash with The crocodile in the river ♪

♪ It's a cruel, crazy,
Beautiful world ♪ - Career Opportunities

♪ It's a cruel, crazy, Beautiful world ♪

♪ It's your world
So live in it, good-bye ♪ - Career Opportunities

♪ It's your world So live in it, good-bye ♪

9:17? - Career Opportunities

He can't be happy as
the night cleanup boy. - Career Opportunities

He can't be happy as the night cleanup boy.

♪ What the world needs now
Is love, sweet love ♪ - Career Opportunities

♪ What the world needs now Is love, sweet love ♪

Keep your distance
from these things. - Career Opportunities

Keep your distance from these things.

I hope you don't take this the wrong way - Career Opportunities

I hope you don't take this the wrong way

- Raisin’ a kid's hard work.
- You got any kids? - Career Opportunities

- Raisin’ a kid's hard work. - You got any kids?

Shouldn't you be cleaning up the store - Career Opportunities

Shouldn't you be cleaning up the store

I look at my high school yearbook - Career Opportunities

I look at my high school yearbook

And you're happy - Career Opportunities

And you're happy

She's so beautiful - Career Opportunities

She's so beautiful

Yeah, I know what you mean. - Career Opportunities

Yeah, I know what you mean.

I don't think you see what I'm getting at - Career Opportunities

I don't think you see what I'm getting at

Do you ever have any family problems - Career Opportunities

Do you ever have any family problems

Would you go with me somewhere - Career Opportunities

Would you go with me somewhere

I'm just surprised. - Career Opportunities

I'm just surprised.

Really? - Career Opportunities

Well, - Career Opportunities

♪ But you never can tell ♪ - Career Opportunities

♪ But you never can tell ♪

Aaah! - Career Opportunities

Would you know if - Career Opportunities

Would you know if

I'm sorry, sir. - Career Opportunities

I'm sorry, sir.

♪ Where are you, baby?
We used to have so much fun ♪ - Career Opportunities

♪ Where are you, baby? We used to have so much fun ♪

Why don't we get
underneath the bench? - Career Opportunities

Why don't we get underneath the bench?

You check the office.
I'll scope the dressing rooms. - Career Opportunities

You check the office. I'll scope the dressing rooms.

You're on top. - Career Opportunities

Ow, ow, OW. - Career Opportunities

Whoops. - Career Opportunities

You look like a lady
in need of a quarter. - Career Opportunities

You look like a lady in need of a quarter.

Now. - Career Opportunities

♪ Ya-ya-ya-ya Ya-ya-ya-ya-ya ♪ - Career Opportunities

♪ Ya-ya-ya-ya Ya-ya-ya-ya-ya ♪

If my foot could talk - Career Opportunities

If my foot could talk

Don't be an ass. - Career Opportunities

Don't be an ass.

Ahem. - Career Opportunities

You got it? I got it. - Career Opportunities

You got it? I got it.

♪ Got a snakeskin suit
That I really like ♪ - Career Opportunities

♪ Got a snakeskin suit That I really like ♪

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Jim is the dorky son of a local cement contractor who lives at home and has no direction. Josie is the gorgeous daughter of a wealthy businessman who dreams of leaving town. They find they have a lot in common.

User Rating: 0.0 (0 ratings)

Director: Bryan Gordon

Writer: John Hughes

Production: Hughes Entertainment

Genre: comedy, romance

Year: 1991

MetaScore: 41/100

ImdbRating: 5.8

BoxOffice: $11,336,986

Released: 29 Mar 1991

Awards: N/A

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