The film-going world lost an icon withJohn Candy's untimely 1994 passing. Sadder yet is the knowledge that the sweet-natured actor had some major projects scheduled to come out down the line, and they weren't all goofy comedies. Candy had a surplus of range, as seen via his mixing of ...
"You should do a movie where you have to take care of these kids." And that turned into me and my love forUncle Buck, the movie with John Candy that I grew up on, and I kind of put those ideas together and I said,
41 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) John Neville & Eric Idle 8.1 21.2 79 04 / 00 76.6 42 Red Heat (1988) Arnold Schwarzenegger & James Belushi 35.0 91.8 59 00 / 00 77.3 42 Frantic (1988) Harrison Ford 17.6 46.3 73 00 / 00 76.2 46 The Great Outdoors (1988) John Candy &...
I am a Strangers With Candy fanatic. Borat - phenomenal. The ruder the better. Bring it on. With that sensibility in place, I looked forward to watching Another Gay Movie. It's about time that a film with gay characters was as crazy and rude and irreverent as the crazy teen comedies ...
finds herself trapped in a downward spiral of degradation and humiliation until her emancipation through the liberating force of liquid chocolate. Then, in the second narrative, murderous Anna Planeta steers her candy-filled boat with the large papier-mâché head of Karl Marx on the prow through...
withJohn Candyin “Uncle Buck,” and here he has to carry almost the whole movie. He has lots of challenging acting scenes, and he’s up to them. I’m sure he got lots of help from directorChris Columbus, but he’s got the stuff to begin with. He’s such a confident and gifted...
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“The Great Outdoors” (citywide) is about as much fun as ants at a picnic for anyone over the age of 10. It’s a crass, blah comedy about summer vacation perils that teams Dan Aykroyd and John Candy, but gives them next to nothing to work with. If the prolific and profit-making ...
In “Uncle Buck” (citywide), writer-director John Hughes has devised a plot with which to fuse his two genres of choice: the clashing-family-members comedy and the tortured-teen pic. John Candy, the titular behemoth, is the eccentric relative from blue-collar hell that no one loves (yet...
There’s Skip who has it, was seen by the FBI agents tailing Candy to have been the pickpocket who stole it, and even when he ‘s offered a no charge deal if he brings the film in to Police Captain Tiger(Murvyn Vye), it’s no dice. Skip won’t comply with the cops or the ...