Top 20 John Candy Films

A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.

A star-pilot for hire and his trusty sidekick must come to the rescue of a princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the evil Spaceballs.

Laid back commitment-phobe Buck babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister.

Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.

When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team.

A young man is reunited with a mermaid he briefly encountered as a boy and falls in love with her without knowing her secret.

Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.

Jake Blues rejoins his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.

A minor-league baseball player must spend $30 million in 30 days in order to inherit $300 million. However, he's not allowed to own any assets, destroy the money, gift it, give it to charity, or tell anyone about the deal.

A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.

A fired cop and useless lawyer sign up as security guards and find they've joined a corrupt union.

A Chicago man and his family go camping with his obnoxious brother-in-law.

The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the Walley World theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated.

Phoebe and a fellow American in Rome find a dog with a $5000 reward. They take a train to the owner in Monte Carlo. She turns up murdered. They run and become suspects just as 3 other Americans on the train.

An overworked air-traffic controller takes his family on a beach vacation but is soon beset by series of mishaps.

An eight-year-old troublemaker, mistakenly left home alone, must defend his home against a pair of burglars on Christmas Eve.

R.A.S. agents Miss Bianca and Bernard race to Australia to save a little boy and a rare golden eagle from a murderous poacher.

Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.

A businessman and his friends are captured by a sadistic judge and his equally odd family in a bizarre mansion in the backwoods.

A clumsy chauffeur is hypnotized by a cult to kill the father of his fiancée, a congressman who's suing the cult for fraud, and encounters several weird characters during the days leading up to his wedding.