Career Opportunities Page #2

Synopsis: Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave home, but is disorientated. Her decision is finalized after she falls asleep in a Target dressing room, and awakes to find that she is locked in the store overnight with the janitor, Jim, the town "no hoper" and liar. A decision to go to L.A. is established, but first they must get through the night. A relationship develops, only to be interrupted by a break in by two petty criminals.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Bryan Gordon
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
 
IMDB:
5.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
38%
PG-13
Year:
1991
83 min
1,220 Views


hypothetically.

Are you gonna be upset?

You don't get this job,

you're on a bus to St. Louis.

St. Louis?

Uncle Jeff's offered you

work in his garden shop.

I don't know anything

about gardening.

You will learn!

I'm getting a feeling that

you want me out of your life.

I don't want you out of my life,

I want you out of my house.

- Wow.

- Out!

Okay, okay, okay.

- Sure I can't offer you a bear claw?

- No, thanks.

- They're good, fresh.

- No, I'm fine.

You don't want one,

and I don't need one.

- Right!

- I love the darn things, though.

I could eat those by the dozen.

By the looks of it, I have.

Right.

I'm so excited that

you're considering...

joining the Target team.

We all are.

I appreciate that.

Good. Then let's cut

right to the chase.

We're prepared

to offer you $42,500 a year...

with a full benefit package.

That's dental, medical,

profit sharing, pensin,

expense account, car allowance,

vacation, of course,

and any and all

relocating expenses.

This is our first, best,

and last offer. What do you think?

Well... um, C. D...

with all due respect,

I came in here...

with the number forty-five

in mind, and...

Hmph.

You've got me.

Forty-five it is.

- Welcome aboard.

- Thank you.

- I'd like to buy you lunch.

- No, no, no.

Your money's no good here.

Lunch is mine.

- I'm not going to argue.

- Better not. I'm bigger than you.

Hang on a second.

I told her to hold my calls.

Yeah, Peg. Uh-huh.

No, it's okay.

- He's right here with me now.

- Hi, Peg.

We just closed the deal.

Uh-huh.

It was a slam-dunk, too.

I got him for forty-five.

No, he's right here.

What do you mean

he missed the plane?

Then who the hell

am I talking to?

Ohhh!

I'll, uh...

I'll get back to you.

I know a great,

little Italian place...

that has the best pasta

primatonis in the wor...

Excuse me a minute,

will you please?

- Lovely wife you have there.

- Dodge, James?

Mm-hmm.

James, I'm afraid we have

a little misunderstanding.

You see, I thought

you came in for the, uh...

operations manager's job.

I have you down here

as night cleanup boy.

Well, I'm a little overpaid...

for night cleanup boy,

wouldn't you say?

The truth is, James,

I can offer you $4.44 per hour.

Uh, four, four...

$4.44...

- $4.44.

- What about the benefits?

Two fifteen-minute breaks

and a half hour for lunch.

And the title is, uh,

night... cleanup boy.

Yes.

I'll take it.

Oh, and, uh...

Iose the curl.

- Welcome to the Target team.

- Thank you.

So the parrot says,

"Of course I can talk."

Can you fly?

I don't want any damn Japanese

automobile plant in this town.

It... it means jobs.

I don't need a job.

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