All John Candy Movies Ranked

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.

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.

A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.

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 timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker named Miss Finch. Unhappy, he runs away from there, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.

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.

A Chicago cop must balance loyalty to his controlling mother and a relationship with a shy funeral home worker.

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

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.

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.

The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war against Canada.

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

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

After graduating from Yale in 1962, womanizing Lawrence flees a gambling debt that his rich dad won't pay and takes his roomie's place as Peace Corps Volunteer in Thai Golden Triangle with two other PCVs. Will he survive two years?

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.

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.