The Great Outdoors
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. From TMDB
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60 of 100 · most liked firstif you opened up the July 15, 1988 Chicago Tribune looking for a movie to go see, you had some options (not shown, but on other pages: Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Great Outdoors, Coming To America, Beetlejuice, The Dead Pool)
neutral · AI labelView post →In 1987, Candy starred with Steve Martin in Planes, Trains & Automobiles. His role as Del Griffith in that film is considered by many to be his best role and his best movie. As the decade ended, he acted in The Great Outdoors and Uncle Buck. 🧵10/18
neutral · AI labelView post →Random Rabbit hole The strange decline of the cover art for the 1988 film The Great Outdoors Where it goes from an amazing painting homage to fishing magazines to a weird DvD cover Then mash'n the painting and DvD cover cuz that grass is too good to pass up Finally now the void cause fuck it
neutral · AI labelView post →Top 10 Summer Vacation Survival Tips I learned from ‘The Great Outdoors’ 🧵 This classic summer family vacation film stars John Candy & Dan Aykroyd as brother-in-laws whose families share a lakeside cabin in the north woods. Personalities clash, nothing goes right and hilarity ensues. Take notes!
neutral · AI labelView post →Today I watched an old John Hughes film, 'The Great Outdoors' with John Candy and Dan Akroyd. It was nice time! Not film of the year, but worth a watch. Scratched that nostalgia itch. #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Actual Movie Facts: 80s screwball comedy fans might notice that his episode was shot in the same cabin that The Great Outdoors with John Candy and Dany Aykroyd was filmed in. No foolin'! . #FrightClub #TalesFromTheCrypt
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie. Yep no work and I'm not tired so put this 80s classic on. Who dosnt love 1988s The Great Outdoors. Great cast and just a funny film #filmsky #thegreatoutdoors #80s #johncandy
positive · AI labelView post →“How can a John Candy movie be bad?” Answer: it can’t 🐻🏕️🥩 Actor/comedian Mike Mitchell picks THE GREAT OUTDOORS (1988) as the Family Matinee in The Mike Mitchell Film Festival! What’s your favorite childhood movie? Comment below + watch the full AC Podcast episode out now!
neutral · AI labelView post →Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is his best movie, but my favorite is The Great Outdoors
positive · AI labelView post →Share a movie featuring animals The Great Outdoors
neutral · AI labelView post →The Great Outdoors? That's a video store movie.
negative · AI labelView post →The Great Outdoors was released in movie theaters 38 years ago today. I'm suddenly craving the Old '96er. youtu.be/q_215iQ7KDs #Movies #Cinema #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →In the classic John Candy and Dan Aykroyd film, The Great Outdoors, Chet Ripley and Roman Craig meet a gentleman at the bar who stutters out that he has been struck by lightning 66 times. Later in the movie he is struck again for the 67th time. 6….7 6.7. I’ve cracked the code.
neutral · AI labelView post →Look, all Richard has to do to get his wife back is get Rip Torn on his side and win the Regatta Race against the Richsnobs Family ... Oh crap, that was Summer Rental, not The Great Outdoors ... Never mind folks, wrong John Candy movie ... . #FrightClub #TalesFromTheCrypt
neutral · AI labelView post →We need polls on this web protocol Vote for Denmark Family Movie Night - Willow - Karate Kid - The Great Outdoors - ET
neutral · AI labelView post →Aug 9, 1985: the film Summer Rental was released in theaters. #80s Under-rated gem has become an annual summer watch along with The Great Outdoors (both starring the great John Candy).
neutral · AI labelView post →Since it’s the anniversary of John Candy’s death, I’m reminded that, since L never really got to know my dad, I made her watch “The Great Outdoors” and said there, John Candy in this film is as close as you’ll get
positive · AI labelView post →If you've seen, or even heard of the movie The Great Outdoors, can you like this post? I'm trying to see something.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching The Great Outdoors. There are few better asshole performances in 80s film than Dan Akroyd puts in in this.
positive · AI labelView post →Name a Comfort Film. The Great Outdoors Practical Magic Steel Magnolias Clash of the Titans To name a few, not to spam my TL
neutral · AI labelView post →part of my continuing series “punctum in the mise-en-scene of family movie night screenings,” I present what was apparently a real board game, Wall Street Finance, featured in The Great Outdoors
neutral · AI labelView post →It feels like I'm living in the film "The Great Outdoors" today. Where's John Candy or Dan Ackroyd when you need him?! 🤣 However, instead of getting into my garbage, this raccoon 🦝 is trying to get into my house! #canadasky #ottawavalley #naturephotography
neutral · AI labelView post →what’s your favorite movie from each decade of your life 80s - The Great Outdoors 90s - Ever After 00s - 5 Centimeters Per Second 10s - Into the Spider-verse 20s - Godzilla Minus One/Thunderbolts
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching The Great Outdoors (1988), dir: Howard Deutch. I love the fucking subtitled raccoons in this film so much! 🤣
positive · AI labelView post →The addition of the retro movie film sound gets annoying, but the complete scene is an all time classic. The Great Outdoors (1988) youtu.be/i14zKG0_X3c?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Spoke with @bingemovies.bsky.social about The Great Outdoors & more John Hughes VHS fun! 📼
neutral · AI labelView post →Just had some father and son time with my dad and watched John Candy's The Great Outdoors together. It was my first time watching the movie & it was pretty funny.
positive · AI labelView post →#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge 7/18 Movie or TV character played by James Brolin Hank, an aspiring forest ranger, on The Patty Duke Show episode "Patty Meets the Great Outdoors" (1965) #tvsky 📺 #filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →This is like me recognizing that the cabin they use in Naked Gun 33 ⅓ is the same cabin that's used in the John Candy and Dan Aykroyd film The Great Outdoors
neutral · AI labelView post →I find it so hard to choose a favorite John Candy movie. I love that one though. Definitely top 3 along with The Great Outdoors and Uncle Buck.
positive · AI labelView post →I’ve only ever seen this in bits and pieces. Time to watch it all the way through. The Great Outdoors (1988) #Filmsky #JohnCandy #Streaming #Netflix #Comedy
unlabelledView post →L never really got to know my dad. Only met him once, under non-ideal conditions. But eventually I said, you know what...the closest I can get you to meeting him is to watch The Great Outdoors with me, and I'll tell you when Candy's character is doing something my dad would do. It's 80% of the film
unlabelledView post →I was talking about this film earlier. I love The Great Outdoors!
unlabelledView post →What was your favorite comedy film from the 1980s? 🤣 For me…The Great Outdoors (1988)
unlabelledView post →Best John Candy film? 🤔 Uncle Buck is good but my favourite is probably The Great Outdoors
unlabelledView post →#EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky (28) Eats a piece of steak Chet Ripley in The Great Outdoors (1988)
unlabelledView post →I’m watching The Great Outdoors and I feel it’s unlocked something from my past. John Candy and Dan Aykroyd are so awesome in this movie. youtu.be/A7KcojkwNIw?...
unlabelledView post →Followed by an occasional reminder that a hot dog is a tube of heavily seasoned compressed scraps ("Lips and assholes" as Dan Aykroyd memorably described it in the movie The Great Outdoors) and having strong opinions about what others put on their tubes of lips and assholes is FUCKING WEIRD.
unlabelledView post →Movie of the day-Summer Movies The Great Outdoors (1988)
unlabelledView post →Movie night and my daughter picked The Great Outdoors and I'm reminded why I have the best 5th grader ever.
unlabelledView post →After this AMC was playing Wizard of Oz and now The Great Outdoors, John Candy's wife is also the mom from Hocus Pocus (Stephanie Faracy), and Annette Benning made her film debut in this.
unlabelledView post →I have this one! I first saw it in the movie The Great Outdoors.
unlabelledView post →I've got it on my (ever-growing) watch list. One film that I don't see get a lot of love, for some reason, is The Great Outdoors. I don't even see it on TV channels any more. The Steakhouse scene pops into my head every once in a while and always makes me smile. 😁
unlabelledView post →Sometimes researching the podcast I just discover joy! This time it’s Trash Pandas. Did You Know THIS About Raccoons? (The Great Outdoors, 1988) youtube.com/shorts/9azQo...
unlabelledView post →151. The Great Outdoors Not one of Hughes better scripts, but the chemistry between John Candy & Dan Aykroyd make the film fun. There are some side plots that don't really add much, and not every joke lands, but Candy and Aykroyd are infectiously fun throughout that its worth it for them
unlabelledView post →29 May 1958 – Annette Bening, 67, US actress. Oscar nominations The Grifters (1989) American Beauty * Being Julia * The Kids Are All Right * Nyad (2022) The Great Outdoors (1988) Bugsy * Running with Scissors * Mrs Harris * Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool * The Report * Apples Never Fall (2023)
unlabelledView post →A movie that, surprisingly, does not hold up if not for Candy. The Great Outdoors however…
unlabelledView post →It's time for a new daily movie challenge! Summer Days - 20 movies that take capture the essence of summer. 😎 🎬 Thank @otter272.bsky.social for this challenge Day 3: The Great Outdoors
unlabelledView post →So pretty much every day was a different teacher picking a different movie. I'm pretty sure the teacher in question meant to get The Great Outdoors, didn't, and just settled for another Dan Ackroyd-John Candy film. So she put Nothing But Trouble on and then walked out to go do whatever.
unlabelledView post →Wish that we had a 3rd solid family vacation movie starring him after Summer Rental and The Great Outdoors.
unlabelledView post →Comfort movie? 🤔 Spaceballs, Uncle Buck, The Great Outdoors, etc.
unlabelledView post →Reminds me of The Great Outdoors movie where the raccoons get in the trash every night. 😂
unlabelledView post →That's hilarious about your friend's reaction to The Descent! 😆 I don't think a movie has EVER made me jump like that! 😆 Very cool about the Pitch Black location! I grew up near where The Great Outdoors was filmed. One of my art teachers was in the end of the film. 😆
unlabelledView post →Watching “The Great Outdoors” is a timeless summer movie classic for me. It makes me have nostalgia of going up to a cottage my dad used to rent on a lake near Traverse City for a week during the summer. I Miss those times. The air, the scenery, the activities.
unlabelledView post →Great movie collection, but what caught my eye was The Great Outdoors and 12 Monkeys. Two films I can never pass up when they’re on!
unlabelledView post →I love trash pandas! We used to see them often in central IL. Every time I see one I always think of that movie The Great Outdoors
unlabelledView post →Movies released on June 17: King Dinosaur (1955) The Great Outdoors (1988) Before Sunset (2004) Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j27C... MST3K: www.youtube.com/watch?v=81rf... #movies 🎬 #anniversary #MST3K
unlabelledView post →What, what? The Great Outdoors? That was one of mine, too; I believe I've seen that movie over 200 times. It's a big part of my love of Wilson Pickett to this day.
unlabelledView post →#JuneMovieChallenge #FilmSky #MovieSky Day 9 - a film with a duck in it The Great Outdoors (1988)
unlabelledView post →Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is on 4K this week, along with Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, 4Ks of The Great Outdoors, Parenthood, Faces of Death, and more in the New Release Round Up.
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