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The Great Outdoors (1988)

PG06/17/1988Comedy1h 31m
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The wildlife is wild, but his brother-in-law in unbearable.

Overview

It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman Craig, his wife, Kate, and the couple's two daughters. As the excursion wears on, the Ripleys find themselves at odds with the stuffy Craig family.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Dan Aykroyd

    Roman Craig

  2. Cast 1

    John Candy

    Chet Ripley

  3. Cast 1

    Stephanie Faracy

    Connie Ripley

  4. Cast 1

    Annette Bening

    Kate Craig

  5. Cast 1

    Chris Young

    Buck Ripley

  6. Cast 1

    Lucy Deakins

    Cammie

  7. Cast 1

    Robert Prosky

    Wally

  8. Cast 1

    Ian Giatti

    Ben Ripley

  9. Cast 1

    Hilary Gordon

    Cara Craig

Decent watch at best, probably won't watch again, but can recommend for those on a late-eighties nostalgia kick. Sometimes it is good to get in "The Way Back Machine" and see some of the movies that made people famous, and I liked Dan Aykroyd and John Candy. The duplicitous plot and character choices just didn't sit great with me. Having recently seen "Brother Nature", it is interesting to see a movie that could have inspired it. I think it would have been a lot better with John Candy as an overwhelmingly positive buzzkill and Aykroyd playing a family man. But Candy is sort of the fam...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$24,000,000.00

Revenue $43,455,230.00

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