Movies with John Candy

Splash

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Fantasy

Starring: John Candy, Daryl Hannah, Tom Hanks, Richard B. Shull, Royce D. Applegate, Eugene Levy, Tony DiBenedetto

Directors: Ron Howard

Country: USA

Year: 1984

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod

Allen Bauer is rescued from drowning as a young boy off Cape Cod by a young mermaid. Years later he returns to the same location, and once again manages to fall into the sea, and is rescued once more by the mermaid (Allen isn't sure what he's seen and what he's imagined). The mermaid decides to search for Allen in New York, sprouting legs when her tail dries. On finding Allen, they fall in love, but she has a secret, which will no longer be a secret if she gets her legs wet..

 

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Drama

Starring: John Candy, Michael McKean, Kevin Bacon, Edie McClurg, Steve Martin, Dylan Baker, Laila Robins

Directors: John Hughes

Country: USA

Year: 1987

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport. As well as bad luck, Neal is blessed with the presence of Del Griffith, Shower Curtain Ring Salesman and all-around blabbermouth, who is never short of advice, conversation, bad jokes, or company. And when he decides that he is going the same direction as Neal....

 

Stripes

Genres: Comedy, War

Starring: John Candy, Judge Reinhold, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Sean Young, John Diehl, Warren Oates

Directors: Ivan Reitman

Country: USA

Year: 1981

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Thanks to a run of bad luck and go-nowhere jobs, John convinces Russell to join the army so they can get in shape, likening it to a health spa. Once in boot camp, wiseguy John tangles with his by-the-book Sgt. and becomes the unofficial leader for his platoon, made up mostly of other misfits and assorted losers. After somehow making it through graduation, they are given a special assignment but, thanks to John's romantic interest in a pretty MPO, the other men wind up behind the Iron Curtain until John, Russell, their dates and Sgt. Hulka make a daring rescue attempt in explosive style.

 

Armed and Dangerous

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Starring: John Candy, Robert Loggia, Eugene Levy, Tony Burton, Jonathan Banks, Meg Ryan, Brion James

Directors: Mark L. Lester

Country: USA

Year: 1986

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Dooley, a cop wrongly sacked for corruption, teams up with a useless defence lawyer in their new careers... as security guards. When the two are made fall guys for a robbery at a location they are guarding, the pair begin to investigate corruption within the company and their union. They soon make enemies of everyone, but can the unlikely duo save the day ?

 

Uncle Buck

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: John Candy, Macaulay Culkin, Brian Tarantina, Suzanne Shepherd, William Windom, Mike Starr, Laurie Metcalf

Directors: John Hughes

Country: USA

Year: 1989

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Uncle Buck has a reputation for being unreliable and a bit of a house wrecker. It is therefore with reluctance, his sister-in-law agrees to leave Buck looking after the kids (two harmless youngsters and a rebelious teenager) when she visits her sick father.

 

Summer Rental

Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Romance

Starring: John Candy, Richard Crenna, Santos Morales, Karen Austin, Joseph Lawrence, Carmine Caridi, Rip Torn

Directors: Carl Reiner

Country: USA

Year: 1985

Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to regain his pride and family's respect.

 

Home Alone

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Family

Starring: John Candy, Joe Pesci, Macaulay Culkin, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard, Devin Ratray

Directors: Chris Columbus

Country: USA

Year: 1990

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

It is Christmas Time and the McAllister family is preparing for a vacation in Paris, France. But, the youngest in the family named Kevin got into a scuffle with his older brother Buzz and was sent to his room which is on the third floor of his house. Then, the next morning, while the rest of the family were in a rush to make it to the airport on time, they completely forgot about Kevin who now has the house all to himself. Being home alone was fun for Kevin, having a pizza all to himself, jumping on his parents' bed and making a mess. Then, Kevin discovers about 2 burglars, Harry and Marv about to rob his house on Christmas eve. Kevin acts qu...

 

Vacation aka National Lampoons Vacation

Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Romance

Starring: John Candy, Anthony Michael Hall, Beverly D'Angelo, Eugene Levy, Randy Quaid, Miriam Flynn, Chevy Chase

Directors: Harold Ramis

Country: USA

Year: 1983

Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

The Griswold family are on a quest. A quest to a Walley World theme park for a family vacation, but things aren't going to go exactly as planned, especially when Clark Griswold is losing all thought towards a mysterious blonde in a red Ferrari.

 

Spaceballs

Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Starring: Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, John Candy, George Wyner, Joan Rivers

Directors: Mel Brooks

Country: USA

Year: 1987

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa to Prince Valium, but Vespa is kidnapped by the evil race of the Spaceballs. The Spaceballs ask Roland a tremendous ransom: all the air of Druidia (you see, the air of Spaceball had serious pollution problems...). The King decides to offer a generous amount of money to a space rogue, Lone Starr, to persuade him to save Vespa. What follows is the parody of a _LOT_ of famous SF movies.HD 1080p PC, Mac, PS3 and XBOX 360 COMPATIBLE

 

The Great Outdoors

Genres: Comedy

Starring: John Candy, Annette Bening, Dan Aykroyd, Robert Prosky, Nancy Lenehan, John Bloom, Stephanie Faracy

Directors: Howard Deutch

Country: USA

Year: 1988

Big-hearted Chicago family man Chet has brought his family to a lakeside resort area, and although his wife and kids aren't quite as excited as he is, Chet has high hopes for the vacation. However, his optimism is sabotaged when his obnoxious brother-in-law Roman drops in unexpectedly, along with his snooty, strange family. Chet and his family try to stay open-minded, but they find it difficult to relax and enjoy themselves because of the constant annoyance of Roman's presence.

 

Nothing But Trouble

Genres: Comedy, Adventure

Starring: John Candy, Taylor Negron, Dan Aykroyd, Raymond J. Barry, Chevy Chase, Brian Doyle-Murray, Valri Bromfield

Directors: Dan Aykroyd

Country: USA

Year: 1991

A financier [Chevy Chase] meets a spurned lover [Demi Moore] and agrees to take her to a business meeting. On the way there, they run a stop sign in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere. They are arrested and taken to the local court. But all is not as it seems: the courthouse and the "prison" are a maze of zany booby- traps and deadly contraptions. The antics of the captured couple as they try to escape from the mad judge and his bizarre family make up the rest of this unusual film.

 

The Silent Partner

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: John Candy, Elliott Gould, Susannah York, Christopher Plummer, Sean Sullivan, Ken Pogue, Nuala Fitzgerald

Directors: Daryl Duke

Country: Canada

Year: 1978

This is an imaginative plot, yet one with which the viewer can readily identify. A bank teller is held up at gun point in his bank. Luckily for him he receives a clue that this is going to occur and diverts most of the cash into his own safety deposit box, leaving only a nominal amount for the crook. The ruse works well, but for the fact that the crook resents the fact that he has been outsmarted. There ensues a terrific battle of wits involving the clever but basically "moral" teller, and the cunning and totally uninhibited bank robber, which involves several other people in ways which cannot be revealed here.

 

Volunteers

Genres: Comedy

Starring: John Candy, Xander Berkeley, Chick Hearn, Tom Hanks, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Rita Wilson, Tim Thomerson

Directors: Nicholas Meyer

Country: USA

Year: 1985

Lawrence is a rich kid with a bad accent and a large debt. After his father refuses to help him out, Lawrence escapes his angry debtors by jumping on a Peace Corp flight to Southeast Asia, where is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves...

 

Little Shop of Horrors

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Horror

Starring: Rick Moranis, John Candy, Vincent Gardenia, Christopher Guest, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, James Belushi

Directors: Frank Oz

Country: USA

Year: 1986

Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day as Seymour is seeking a new mysterious plant, he finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for his supper. Soon enough, Seymour feeds Audrey's sadistic dentist boyfriend to the plant and later, Mushnik for witnessing the death of Audrey's ex. Will Audrey II take over the world or will Seymour and Audrey defeat it?

 

Heavy Metal

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Starring: John Candy, Eugene Levy, John Vernon, Harold Ramis, Jackie Burroughs, Rodger Bumpass, Alice Playten

Directors: Gerald Potterton

Country: Canada

Year: 1981

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

A sweeping story of the battle of good against evil is told through an anthology of short animated films about a glowing green orb (the Loc-Nar) that is the personification of ultimate evil in the universe. Based loosely on the French magazine "Heavy Metal."

 

Hot to Trot

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy

Starring: John Candy, Mary Gross, Virginia Madsen, Santos Morales, Tim Kazurinsky, Harry Caesar, Cindy Pickett

Directors: Michael Dinner

Country: USA

Year: 1988

Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has good knowledge about the stock-market. With the help of this horse Fred gains a lot at the stock-market of Chicago.

 

The Rescuers Down Under

Genres: Crime, Adventure, Family

Starring: John Candy, Bob Newhart, Frank Welker, Wayne Robson, George C. Scott, Bernard Fox, Russi Taylor

Directors: Hendel Butoy, Mike Gabriel

Country: USA

Year: 1990

Cody, a boy from Mugwomp Flats responds to a distress call about a trapped giant Golden Eagle called Marahute. Freeing her, he gains a close friendship with the bird. However, Cody is soon abducted by the murderous poacher, Percival McLeach, who is after that bird which is of a highly endangered species and therefore an extremely profitable quarry. In a panic, a mouse Cody freed from one of McLeach's traps sends a desperate call for help to the Rescue Aid Society in New York City who assigns their top agents, Miss Bianca and Bernard to the task. With transportation provided by the goofy Albatross, Wilbur, the agents arrive in Austrailia and l...

 

Cool Runnings

Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Sport

Starring: John Candy, Raymond J. Barry, Doug E. Doug, Bill Dow, Leon, Malik Yoba, Peter Outerbridge

Directors: Jon Turteltaub

Country: USA

Year: 1993

Irving Blitzer disgraced himself when putting extra weights into his team's bob in the Olympics, resulting in his gold medal being taken away from him. Years later, Derice Bannock, son to a former friend of Irv, fails to qualify for the 100-yard sprint for the Olympics due to a stupid accident. But when he hears of Irving Blitzer living also on Jamaica, Derice decides to go to the Games anyway. If not as a sprinter, then as a bobsledder. After some starting problems, the first Jamaican bobsledding team is formed and heads for Calgary. In the freezing weather Derice, Sanka, Junior and Yul are only laughed at, since nobody can take a Jamaican b...

 

Who's Harry Crumb?

Genres: Comedy, Mystery

Starring: John Candy, Jeffrey Jones, Barry Corbin, Annie Potts, Shawnee Smith, Tim Thomerson, Valri Bromfield

Directors: Paul Flaherty

Country: USA

Year: 1989

Harry is the latest generation of the Crumbs, famous and extremely talented detectives. Unfortunately, talent seems to have skipped a generation, and Harry is reduced to "gumshoe" work at a remote branch of the Crumb detective agency. Back at headquarters, Crumb executive Elliot Draison hatches an evil plan, which requires the inclusion of an incompotent detective. With Harry Crumb on the case, Draison thinks everything will run fine for him. Despite his best efforts, Crumb actually makes some headway in the case...

 

Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird

Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Family

Starring: Caroll Spinney, Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Richard Hunt, John Candy, Sandra Bernhard, Laraine Newman

Directors: Ken Kwapis

Country: USA, Canada

Year: 1985

Big Bird is the central character in this film. A social worker, upon seeing that Big Bird doesn't live with other birds, sets him up with a Dodo family to be adopted. Unfortunately he is not happy in his new surroundings and, trying to get back to Sesame Street, runs away from home. On the way, he encounters adventure with all kinds of people, and discovers where he really wants to be: His true home - Sesame Street.