John Candy’s Kids On Hurtful Questions Interviewers Asked Their Dad About His Weight: “People Were Ruthless Back Then” – Toronto Studio

John Candy’s Kids On Hurtful Questions Interviewers Asked Their Dad About His Weight: “People Were Ruthless Back Then” – Toronto Studio

Actor-director Colin Hanks was about 7 years old when Splash came out in 1984, the movie that starred his father Tom Hanks and John Candy; it would be a major hit for the emerging stars. The younger Hanks, director of the documentary John Candy: I Like Me, which just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, […]

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TIFF premieres documentary honouring Canadian comedian John Candy, highlighting his classic characters and struggles with stardom

‘John Candy: I Like Me’ Review: Colin Hanks’ Documentary Offers a Warm but Overstuffed Tribute

I fell in love with John Candy the moment I saw him serve up those shovel-sized pancakes in “Uncle Buck.” John Hughes wrote the part of Uncle Buck specifically for Candy, and the uncle’s affection for his nieces and nephew was true in real life too. Now, over 30 years after Candy’s death in 1994, comes a new documentary “John Candy: I Like Me,” full of funny anecdotes about a guy virtually everyone liked and also what being that guy cost him. Di…

Liking John Candy Isn’t Enough

Colin Hanks’s new documentary, ‘John Candy: I Like Me,’ is pleasant enough, but it doesn’t actually reveal much about the three-dimensional human at its center.