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John Candy: I Like Me documentary available now on Amazon Prime Video, directed by Colin Hanks

John Candy: I Like Me, directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds, is now available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video. The documentary premiered at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival on September 4, 2025, before opening to the general public on October 10, 2025. This intimate portrait explores the life, career, and untimely death of the legendary Canadian-American comedic actor, drawing on never-before-seen archival footage, personal interviews from those closest to him, and candid insights into the man behind the beloved on-screen personas.

John Candy became one of the most recognizable faces in North American comedy by combining vulnerability with physical humor, creating characters audiences connected with on emotional levels rarely seen in broad comedy films. His journey began in 1973 when, at age 22, he joined the resident ensemble at The Second City Toronto. By 1976, he was part of the legendary SCTV cast, which moved to NBC in 1981 and quickly earned the show two Emmy Awards for writing.

The Stephen King adaptation that almost starred John Candy

Rarely has the throwaway phrase ‘larger than life’ been more applicable to an actor than the Canadian comedy star John Candy, whose light burned twice as bright for half as long in a historic run of movies in the 1980s.

Candy, the recent subject of an acclaimed documentary called I Like Me, directed by Tom Hanks’ son Colin, was the former TV sketch comic who dominated mainstream comedy movies during that decade, including some classics written and directed by John Waters like Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck and The Great Outdoors.

He was in his 30s when Hollywood fame hit after a succession of roles in films including Hanks’ Splash, Brewster’s Millions and Bill Murray’s Splash, and the actor, who had struggled with his weight since an injury cut short a high school football career, lived about as frantic an existence as was possible while working, abusing cocaine and alcohol and smoking packets of cigarettes a day.

Return to “The Great Outdoors” in Kino Lorber’s first-time 4K UHD restoration of this Howard Deutch-directed family comedy.

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In the modern era of comedy, there are few performers spoken of with the same reverence as John Candy. A Canadian actor and performer, he made a massive impression with audiences even before joining Second City Television (SCTV) and would go on to charm audiences globally with turns comedic and dramatic, large and small, whether in The Blues Brothers (1980), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Spaceballs (1987), or Cool Runnings (1993) — and that doesn’t get into the larger titles like Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) or Uncle Buck (1989). For me, however, it would be turns as a bumbling P.I. in Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989) and devoted family man in The Great Outdoors (1988) that cemented my appreciation for Candy. Now, thanks to Kino Lorber, fans of situational family comedy The Great Outdoors can enjoy the film with a brand-new 4K UHD restoration that, while it includes no bonus features, does bring three feature-length commentary tracks that enable fans to learn about the making of the film and a great deal more as they watch.

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