Career Opportunities (1991)
February 8, 2025 11:59 AM - Subscribe
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.
Not even Elizabeth Taylor in her prime was more beautiful than Jennifer Connelly was in this movie.
Not even Elizabeth Taylor in her prime was more beautiful than Jennifer Connelly was in this movie.
I've never seen this, but is this the one where they're alone in a Target all night in the trailer?
I've never seen it either. But this tells me all I need to know.
posted by Lemkin at 12:56 PM on February 8
I've never seen it either. But this tells me all I need to know.
posted by Lemkin at 12:56 PM on February 8
I'm born just a few years after her, so no matter what era of Jennifer Connelly movie I saw in theaters, she was always the most beautiful girl in the world to me.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:05 PM on February 8 [2 favorites]
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:05 PM on February 8 [2 favorites]
But this tells me all I need to know.
The chemistry with David Bowie in Labyrinth was somehow more wholesome
posted by ginger.beef at 5:44 PM on February 8 [1 favorite]
The chemistry with David Bowie in Labyrinth was somehow more wholesome
posted by ginger.beef at 5:44 PM on February 8 [1 favorite]
I found this hilarious simply because, a couple of years before this came out, I had this exact job--being a janitor in a Target on the graveyard shift. Needless to say, it wasn't anything like this, even taking into account the total lack of surprise Jennifer Connelly:
- One person couldn't do even a half-assed job of cleaning the whole place; there were at least three or four of us, more if we needed to refinish the floors. I was stuck there once by myself, and got the floors swept and the high-traffic carpeted areas vacuumed, and my supervisor (who showed up at the end of the shift, I'm not sure why) yelled at me for not doing more, but I knew that I wouldn't get in trouble because then he'd have to explain why he wasn't there (he was off fucking his girlfriend; his wife called a couple of times when he was supposedly at work, and we honestly answered that we didn't know where he was).
- You couldn't just eat food off the shelves and play around with shit. Not only were there hidden cameras, but sometimes they'd prowl around above the dropped ceiling to see if they could catch us stealing stuff; we also had to have them take an inventory of what we were wearing before and after our shift. We weren't stealing anything (well, I wasn't); it was their own staff, but they found it easier to blame the outsourced janitors.
Anyway, I only did that for maybe half a year and then transferred to one of the janitorial service's office accounts--same pay but second shift and a lot less dire all around. There weren't a lot of people in the theater and I think that I was the only one laughing. I wondered if any of the assholes that I worked with there had seen it, but I didn't exactly go out of my way to keep in touch.
posted by Halloween Jack at 10:59 PM on February 8 [8 favorites]
- One person couldn't do even a half-assed job of cleaning the whole place; there were at least three or four of us, more if we needed to refinish the floors. I was stuck there once by myself, and got the floors swept and the high-traffic carpeted areas vacuumed, and my supervisor (who showed up at the end of the shift, I'm not sure why) yelled at me for not doing more, but I knew that I wouldn't get in trouble because then he'd have to explain why he wasn't there (he was off fucking his girlfriend; his wife called a couple of times when he was supposedly at work, and we honestly answered that we didn't know where he was).
- You couldn't just eat food off the shelves and play around with shit. Not only were there hidden cameras, but sometimes they'd prowl around above the dropped ceiling to see if they could catch us stealing stuff; we also had to have them take an inventory of what we were wearing before and after our shift. We weren't stealing anything (well, I wasn't); it was their own staff, but they found it easier to blame the outsourced janitors.
Anyway, I only did that for maybe half a year and then transferred to one of the janitorial service's office accounts--same pay but second shift and a lot less dire all around. There weren't a lot of people in the theater and I think that I was the only one laughing. I wondered if any of the assholes that I worked with there had seen it, but I didn't exactly go out of my way to keep in touch.
posted by Halloween Jack at 10:59 PM on February 8 [8 favorites]
Ah, so _this_ is the source for any number of soft core-y, leering gaze-y, synthwave-y (like, OK, the Flock of Seagulls video to be sure, but with like 90% more Jennifer Connelly in that white shirt), not long for this world youtube videos that were popping up on my Youtube home page last summer.
Huh. I'd never heard of it before, and it was released right around when I probably would have expected to get targeted for it.
posted by Kyol at 11:08 AM on February 10 [1 favorite]
Huh. I'd never heard of it before, and it was released right around when I probably would have expected to get targeted for it.
posted by Kyol at 11:08 AM on February 10 [1 favorite]
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