The Great Outdoors

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The Great Outdoors ★★ 1988 (PG)

Good cast is mostly wasted in another John Hughes's tale of vacation gone bad. A family's peaceful summer by the lake is disturbed by their uninvited, trouble-making relatives. Aykroyd and Candy are two funny guys done in by a lame script that awkwardly examines friendship and coming of age and throws in a giant bear when things get unbearably slow. May be fun for small fry. 91m/C VHS, DVD . Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Stephanie Faracy, Annette Bening, Chris Young, Lucy Deakins, John Bloom; D: Howard Deutch; W: John Hughes; C: Ric Waite; M: Thomas Newman.

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