The Great Outdoors is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Howard Deutch, and written and produced by John Hughes. It stars Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Stephanie Faracy and Annette Bening in her film debut.
The film follows two families who spend time on vacation in Wisconsin.
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Plot
Chicagoan Chester "Chet" Ripley, his wife, Connie, and their two sons, Buckley "Buck" and Ben, were vacationing in a lakeside resort in Pechoggin, Wisconsin during the summer. All went as planned until Connie's sister Kate, Kate's investment broker, Roman Craig, and their twin daughters, Mara and Cara, smashed the holiday.
The ghost story in the BBQ family includes one of the grizzly bears who ate the meals Chet met when he was young. Chet says that while he and Connie are honeymooning in the same lake, he is attacked by a grizzly giant bear. When he shot him with a shotgun, the arrow shaved his head from the top of the bear's head and from that day on, it was known as the "Bald Bear" in Clare County.
After Roman pulls Chet around the lake with an impromptu water ski ride by speedboat rent, tension between families erupts. Chet is ready to pack and go home, even when his teenage boy, Buck, tries to cheer up a local girl, Cammie. The novice romance went well until Chet was challenged to eat the Old 96'er (96-ounce steak) at a family dinner that caused Buck to break their date. Buck tries to apologize to Cammie for being late, but Cammie refuses to talk to him.
Connie and Kate bond at the local bar as the conversation drifts into Kate's challenge to get rich. Then, only at the height of the tension among the families, it emerged that the Romans had made a bad investment and went bankrupt. He has not told Kate yet and plans to hit Chet for cash.
Then, during a thunderstorm, the twins roam and fall into the pit. Chet and Roman found them, but Roman claustrophobia reluctantly descended into small mine rods. After some encouragement from Chet, Roman summoned all his courage, while Chet searched the ropes to pull them out. After realizing that the mine was filled with old dynamite, Roman took her daughter and climbed out of her own axis.
When Chet returns with a rope, he is horrified to find "Bear Bear Bald Head" hiding in the mine. He chases him back to his house, smashes the door, and goes berserk at home. Wally, the cabin owner, bursts with a full rifle while Roman tries to hold the animals with fire poker and oars. Chet picks up a gun and shoots a bear, blowing a feather from the back. Roaring, the bear ran out of the house.
The next morning, the two families separated carefully. Unbeknownst to Chet, Connie had invited Roman families to stay with them until they could rise again. Cammie and Buck make and end their summer romance, when Buck and his family return to Chicago.
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Cast
- And Aykroyd as Roman Craig
- John Candy as Chester "Chet" Ripley
- Stephanie Faracy as Connie Ripley
- Annette Bening as Kate "Katie" Craig
- Robert Prosky as Wally
- Chris Young as Buckley "Buck" Ripley
- Ian Giatti as Ben "Benny" Ripley
- Hillary and Rebecca Gordon as Cara and Mara Craig
- Lucy Deakins as Cammie
Location filming
The film was taken at a location in Bass Lake, California, a small town near Yosemite National Park for three weeks in October 1987.
Ducey's Bass Lake Lodge, a rustic 1940s resort on Bass Lake, is featured as Wally and Juan's Perk's Pine Lodge. Loon Nest holiday cabins, built as a set, are designed to match the cabin style that is in Ducey.
Reception
The Great Outdoors got mixed feedback from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gave the movie a score of 40% based on 15 reviews.
Janet Maslin of The New York Times reported that the film did not have enough collective energy to light a bonfire in its review. Kevin Thomas of Los Angeles Times called the film "a rough comedy, blah about the dangers of summer vacations" and said he was surprised the movie was made entirely. He described the credit sequence in which Aykroyd danced to "Land of 1000 Tances" Wilson Pickett as the only real pleasure and energy throughout the film. "Imagine that it rains cats and dogs and you are locked in the northern woods cabin for weeks with the people you like best, and you'll quite feel what it's like to sit in this movie," Hal Hinson said. from The Washington Post .
box office
The film grossed $ 6,121,115 on its opening weekend and ended with a North American domestic gross box of $ 41,455,230, and grossed worldwide $ 43,455,230.
Soundtrack
A soundtrack for the film was released by Atlantic Records in 1988 and featured many of the songs used in the film.
Reboot
On April 27, 2017, Universal Pictures had Kevin Hart who starred in a movie reboot with producer Michael De Luca.
References
External links
- The Great Outdoors on IMDb
- The Great Outdoors in the TCM Film Database
- The Great Outdoors at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Great Outdoors at AllMovie
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