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 ...
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 ...
Candy's career rebounded in 1987 with the popular comedy Planes, Trains & Automobiles, which also starred Steve Martin. That same year, he had a memorable yet brief appearance in Mel Brooks' Star Wars spoof Spaceballs. In 1988, he starred opposite Aykroyd in The Great Outdoors, which receive...
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...
John Candy, the hefty comic who rose to fame in a series of slapstick films that brought smiles to the faces of studio financiers and shrieks of delight from his audiences, died Friday in Mexico, where he was filming.
The latter film is a golden classic and is one of Candy's greatest films. He followed up immediately with The Great Outdoors (1988), once again alongside Dan Aykroyd. Candy landed another classic role in the film Uncle Buck (1989) which was about a bumbling uncle who must look after his...
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...