Dan Aykroydstars as Chet Ripley in this comedy movie about a man set to go on vacation in the great outdoors, only to have his weekend crashed by his wife's brother-in-law Roman Craig (John Candy) and his stuffy family. This is one of John Hughes' lesser-known movies that he wrote ...
He met and befriended future collaborator Dan Aykroyd around this time. Aykroyd encouraged Candy to try out for the Toronto branch of the popular Chicago comedy troupe Second City. Success With Second City Candy did so well at his Second City audition that he was invited to join the troupe's...
He was the man responsible for coming-of-age classics such as Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day off and many more including one of which is getting a remake, The Great Outdoors which originally starred Dan Aykroyd and John Candy.Almost twenty years after the Howard ...
Second City TV (1976) earned Candy a reputation for his quirky humor and his uncanny imitations of others.After the television series, Candy appeared alongside fellow Canadian Dan Aykroyd in the Steven Spielberg flop 1941 (1979). However, other jobs followed and Candy landed a role, once again...
Film director Steven Spielberg had seen Candy earlier and gave him a small part in “1941,” a comedy about the days after Pearl Harbor. Much of what he and Aykroyd did in the film was eliminated in the final cut, but he considered it his first major film break. Earlier he had appeare...
Dan Aykroyd plays Roman Craig in The Great Outdoors, the obnoxious, self-aggrandizing hot-shot investment broker living a massive lie that he tries to wiggle of by soliciting funds from his financially modest brother-in-law Chet (John Candy). Roman is curt, mendacious, and too hifalutin' to...
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11. “You know what the gourmet here wanted? Hot dogs! You know what they’re made of, Chet? Huh? Lips and assholes!” - Roman Craig (Dan Aykroyd) “The Great Outdoors” (1988) 12. “Stand me up today, and tomorrow I’ll drive you to school in my robe and pajamas and walk yo...
New student Cady Heron ( Angourie Rice ) is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics,” ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George ( Reneé Rapp ) and her minions Gretchen and Karen ( Avantika ). However, when Cady ...