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Released
1991 · FILM

Career Opportunities

When affluent but suffocated Josie falls asleep in a Target dressing room and awakens to an empty store, she must navigate a night of unexpected connection with the cynical janitor Jim, risking her carefully guarded future for a chance at true freedom.

“He took the job that no one wanted... and got the girl that everyone did.”

Directed by
Bryan Gordon
Written by
John Hughes
Runtime
83 min
ComedyRomance

Synopsis

Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, struggles with personal problems at home and longs to escape. Her sense of direction and resolve becomes more pronounced when she falls asleep in a Target dressing room. She wakes to find herself trapped in the store overnight, alone with Jim, the town's so-called "no hoper" and known liar, who is also the janitor.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Glenn FarrShot by Donald McalpineScored by Thomas NewmanDesigned by Paul Sylbert

Box Office

1991 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$11.3M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$11.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $4.0M — 36% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $5.6M — 49% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,440 theaters

Also known as

  • Kevins Cousin allein im Supermarktde
  • Une place à prendrefr
  • Tutto può accadereit

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