The Great Outdoors | 
| Director: Howard Deutch
Actors: Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Stephanie Faracy, Annette Bening, Chris Young
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 2090
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D20228D
ISBN: 0783227884
UPC: 025192022821
EAN: 9780783227887
ASIN: 0783227884
Theatrical Release Date: June 17, 1988
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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This hit-and-miss 1988 comedy pairs John Candy and Dan Aykroyd in a story of one family's summer vacation all but ruined by the uninvited appearance of another, more loutish family. Howard Deutch (Some Kind of Wonderful) directs from a half-hearted John Hughes script, which reduces Hughes's jokes-and-epiphanies formula (The Breakfast Club, Home Alone) to true gaudiness. On the other hand, Annette Bening makes her screen debut here. The DVD release has a widescreen presentation, production notes, trailer, optional French soundtrack, and optional Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh
Product Description
When an unannounced, uninvited and unwelcome family of fun-loving misfits converge upon a lakeside resort to join their relatives for a summer of relaxation, the result is anything but restive in this raucous comedy starring Dan Aykroyd and John Candy., It's a vacationer's worst nightmare, as wheeler-dealer Aykroyd, his sexually repressed wife and eerie twin daughters join the easy-going Candy and his straight-laced clan for a season of fun in the sun. Unfortunately, the only thing these two in-laws have in common is their intense dislike for each other. Soon, it's brother-in-law against brother-in-law in an uproarious and hilarious fight to the finish to see which one really knows how to enjoy The Great Outdoors.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 62 more reviews...
 Candy+Akroyd Are Hiliarious! January 2, 2009
Joycelin Tui (Okinawa)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I miss John Candy movies. He was a great comedian and the tet-a-tet with Dan Akroyd is humorous.
 A favorite August 2, 2008
B. Bates (Santa Fe, NM USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of our family favorites. Not an Oscar contender, but a simple move that is funny for the family.
CLASSIC!! Needs to be in your movie collection February 15, 2008
B. Barnett (Reno, NV United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love this movie, if you have ever gone on a family vacation you can relate. Its just a classic John Candy flick and hilarious. A movie I can watch over and over and never get sick of.
A must have, it was a hit when I saw it in the 80's and still one of my favorites.
Great Family Fun January 12, 2008
Daniel J. Turnbough (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great movie to just sit down with the family and have some good laughs. John Candy is Hilarious and this is one of his greatest. I highly recommend this movie for the whole family to enjoy.
An 80s must have! January 7, 2008
Adam (Richland, WA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of my favorite films (that is a huge list by the way). As you may have gathered already it's about a family vacation that goes downhill when another family decides to show up with no invitation to join them in their cabin.
The comedy is perfectly 80s and a John Candy gem. Though some may say this is a family movie please be warned there is some minor use of "adult" language mostly A** and Sh** with a few adult situations. Movie ratings were not so strict back then so if you are a person who frowns on these things you might want to view it before you sit the family down to watch it, you have been warned.
Anyhow, if you like John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, or anything 80's buy this movie you won't regret it.
A top notch 5 out of 5.
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