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The Great Outdoors

Name: The Great Outdoors
Director: Howard Deutch
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1988-06-17
Duration: 91 min
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Stephanie Faracy, Annette Bening, Chris Young

1988 · 1h 31m · Comedy

Skip it unless you're a die-hard John Candy fan—this 1988 comedy is a pretty standard family vacation clash flick that relies heavily on slapstick and fish-out-of-water gags that haven't aged particularly well. There are better ways to spend your evening than watching outdated cabin comedy antics.

Plot

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.

Director: Howard Deutch

Cast: Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Stephanie Faracy, Annette Bening, Chris Young

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