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The Great Outdoors

The Great Outdoors

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An unwelcome brother-in-law and his family show up unannounced at the lakeside resort of their straight-laced relatives and soon compete in their atteThis 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

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