The Great Outdoors (film)


The Great Outdoors is a 1988 American comedy film starring Dan Aykroyd and John Candy. Annette Bening in her film debut and Stephanie Faracy costar. Robert Prosky, Lucy Deakins and Lewis Arquette have supporting roles. The film was directed by Howard Deutch and written and produced by John Hughes.

Ghost stories at the family BBQ include one of a maneating grizzly bear that Chet met facetoface when he was younger. Chet says that while he and Connie were honeymooning at the same lake, he was attacked by a giant grizzly bear. When Chet fired at it with a shotgun, the buckshot shaved the hair off the top of the bears head and from that day on, it was known as the BaldHeaded Bear of Claire County.After Roman pulls Chet around the lake on an impromptu water ski ride with his rented speedboat Suck My Wake, tensions between families erupt. Chet is ready to pack up and go home, even as teenager Buck tries to romance local girl, Cammie Deakins. The budding romance goes well until Chet is challenged to eat the Old 96er a 96ounce steak at a family dinner which causes Buck to break the date. Buck tries to apologize to Cammie for being late, but Cammie refuses to speak to him. ........

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