Career Opportunities is a 1991 American romantic comedy film starring Frank Whaley in his first lead role and co-starring Jennifer Connelly.

In the film, Jim Dodge (Whaley) is a persuasive but irresponsible young man who lands a job as an overnight janitor at a local Target store.

Twenty-one-year-old Jim Dodge is a self-proclaimed "people person" and dreamer, perceived as lazy and good-for-nothing.

Josie had spent the past several hours asleep in a dressing room after backing out of shoplifting some merchandise in a half-hearted attempt to run away from her abusive father, Roger Roy McClellan.

While the criminals are loading stolen merchandise into their car, Josie jumps into the front seat and drives away, leaving the two men stranded in the parking lot.

Meanwhile, in the building, Jim loads up a shotgun found in the head custodian's locker and tricks Nestor and Gil by luring them to the back of the store and holding them at gunpoint.

"[4] After a nationwide search, the filmmakers chose the rural area of Monroe, Georgia, for the film's locale.

It was shot over the Christmas holiday shopping season; a writer at the American Film Institute noted that "Some store employees remained after hours, and several were chosen to be background actors, while others restocked departments utilized by the production crew.

[6] The filmmakers created an additional "Garden of Eden" set within the store, designed for an emotional scene between the film's leads.

Rolling Stone later wondered if the filmmakers "perhaps realizing they had a complete dog of a movie on their hands, attempted to hard-sell the dubious teen flick as some sort of cleavage fanatic's wet dream.

[6]Rotten Tomatoes retrospectively gives the film a score of 42% based on reviews from 19 critics, with an average rating of 4.9 out of 10.

[13] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of "C+" on scale of A+ to F.[14] In August 2023, the Australian media company Via Vision, via its sublabel Imprint, released a remastered Blu-ray edition of Career Opportunities as part of its limited edition 3-film box set Film Focus: Jennifer Connelly (1991–2003).