John Candy 1950-1994

I decided to rank all of John Candy's films on what would have been the fabled funnyman's 75th birthday. Candy had roles in eight films produced in the '70s that we're just not going to discuss, because they're too obscure, insignificant, and hard to find today.

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32. filmed before, released after, and isn't any better.

John made two movies with Tom Hanks, but you don't need to bother with this one. Noteworthy only for the real-like romance that developed between Tom and Rita Wilson who lived happily ever after.

I recently made the mistake of thinking that one of Eugene Levy's few "above the title" roles was worthy of a Tubi rewatch. Picture "Police Academy" with security guards. John makes the most of the thin premise as his ex-cop partner, just don't expect it to be good.

Steven Spielberg's worst film. Candy gets lost in the shuffle of a large ensemble cast that includes John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, Robert Stack, Nancy Allen, Treat Williams, Tim Mathison, Lorraine Gary, Christopher Lee, Warren Oates, and Toshiro Mifune.

There's laughs to be had in this Carl Reiner comedy.

For most of it's runtime(the first 80 minutes), this is one of the funniest films of the early-'80s.

serious

may be his most underrated film.

If you grew up in the late '80s-early-'90s, Mel Brooks' "Star Wars" spoof was a part of your life, it's as simple as that. You may even like it more than "Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frankenstein". George Lucas himself approved

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. Legend has it that Candy spent one whole day(literally, 23 hours) on the set of "Home Alone" for his largely improvised role of traveling musician Gus Polinski and accepted mimimum payment($414) as a favor to John Hughes. He was understandably annoyed when a seemingly-small kids movie became a phenomenon and the highest-grossing film of 1990, with a domestic gross of $285 million. Regardless, it's still cool that he's in another timeless holiday classic(John has Thanksgiving AND Christmas covered).

3. Yes, John Candy is only in Oliver Stone's paranoid masterpiece for about five minutes, but he owns every second of those five minutes as a sweaty New Orleans lawyer, and it's absolutely one of the best things he was ever a part of. Candy was eager to break free of his comedic persona and was said to be thrilled to get this part, and extremely nervous about his monologue opposite Kevin Costner.

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