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.| Status: | Released (1988-06-17) |
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| BoxOffice: | $41,455,230 |
| Screen: | John Hughes |
| Productions: | Universal Pictures, Hughes Entertainment |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 707: Dan Aykroyd - Roman Craig
- 7180: John Candy - Chet Ripley
- 14105: Stephanie Faracy - Connie Ripley
- 516: Annette Bening - Kate Craig
- 27504: Chris Young - Buck Ripley
- 171213: Lucy Deakins - Cammie
- 10360: Robert Prosky - Wally
Crews
- 8277: Arne Schmidt - Producer - Production
- 101608: Rob Bottin - Makeup Effects - Crew
- 45861: Tom Jacobson - Executive Producer - Production
- 11505: John Hughes - Writer - Writing
- 11505: John Hughes - Executive Producer - Production
- 21794: Seth Flaum - Editor - Editing
- 1047: Tom Rolf - Editor - Editing
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Reviews
Kamurai
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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 plo ....
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"The Great Outdoors" is only a moderately entertaining film, although it does feature the unforgettably spectacular sight of John Candy water skiing. The grizzly bear action also works well and there is always an enthusiastic energy about this film which every member of the cast effo ....
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If you took a Vacation film and filled in the blanks with different character names and places, you'd have a movie like this. It has all of the same ingredients but the emotional feeling behind them is lost. John Candy could play the Griswold part, Dan Ankryd the Cousine Eddie part, ....
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