The Great Outdoors

The wildlife is wild, but his brother-in-law in unbearable.

The Great Outdoors (1988)

Timing: 1:31 (91 min)

6.4/10
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Release date

1988-06-17

Country

United States

Production

Universal Pictures, Hughes Entertainment

Genre

Comedy

Budget

$24 000 000

Revenue

$43 455 230

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Director

Howard Deutch

Actors

Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Stephanie Faracy, Annette Bening, Chris Young, Lucy Deakins, Robert Prosky, Ian Giatti, Hilary Gordon, Rebecca Gordon
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Scenario

John Hughes

Producer

Arne Schmidt, John Hughes, Tom Jacobson

Operator

Ric Waite

Composer

Thomas Newman

Artist

Audition

Editing

Tom Rolf, Seth Flaum, William D. Gordean
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It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman Craig, his wife, Kate, and the couple's two daughters. As the excursion wears on, the Ripleys find themselves at odds with the stuffy Craig family.

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