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 rose to fame as a member of the Toronto, Ontario branch of The Second City, its related Second City Television series, and in his role in comedy films such as Stripes, Splash, Cool Runnings, The Great Outdoors, and Uncle Buck. One of his most renowned onscreen performances was that ...
Candy became famous for his impressions of Luciano Pavarotti and Julia Child and for his half-crazed characters: The chain-smoking egoist Johnny LaRue, the late-night horror show host Dr. Tongue, and one of the polka enthusiasts known as the Shmnenge Brothers Happy Wanderers. “Individually the...
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 brother's three children.Although he was in the smash hit Home Alone (1990...
While Spaceballs and The Great Outdoors didn't excite critics, Candy went on to score a big hit with the John Hughes comedy Uncle Buck (1989). In 1990, he appeared in a smaller role in the smash Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin. Due to his tall stature and generous size, Candy ...
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...
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 ...
She's Having a Baby (1988) Chet from 'The Great Outdoors' (uncredited) $20MM $3.8MM $16MM $16MM Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) Del Griffith, Performer ("Blue Moon of Kentucky", "(Meet) the Flintstones", "I Can Take Anything (Love Theme from Planes, Trains & Automobiles...
Finally, “Uncle Buck” (MPAA-rated PG) has a medium-level Hughes script, only about half as good as “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” about 50 times as good as “The Great Outdoors.” Before things go all awry in the final stretch, which has Buck patching things up with long-suffer...
While those were near the bottom of John Candy’s filmography, he still left behind some tremendous works, with such charming performances in The Great Outdoors, Home Alone, Uncle Buck, and many more, not to mention sketch comedy series SCTV. There, too, were so many “What if?” ...