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miniman

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30,116 posts

292 months

Tuesday 14th October 2025
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Great documentary on John Candy on Amazon Prime.


MCBrowncoat

1,774 posts

176 months

Tuesday 14th October 2025
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Yeah got a bit late tonight, but I put it on my watchlist

Bright Halo

3,990 posts

265 months

Wednesday 15th October 2025
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I will be watching tonight.

Big Raff

1,386 posts

201 months

Wednesday 15th October 2025
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I put this on the Amazon Prime thread,

Big Raff said:
I Like Me

The John Candy documentary. Quite touching at times and a good insight into a person who really believed he was going to be something special while also being loved by everyone. Sad childhood and everything he tried to do to make the best of it resulted in the same start for his own children.

A few takes from it were that he was a lot like his character from Planes...where he just took every set back, insult, wrong and just stored it away and hit the bottle hard. He was an easy target but only really because he was fat - other than that i just don't know why his confidence would ever be low.

They have no mention on how he died, just that he died at 43 (which made him Uncle Buck at 35!), but no other details - presumably not to lower the tone of the documentary.

There was no mention of Cool Runnings, which I thought strange/a shame.


Not going to hide this one, but after all the credits, which I had on because of the song played there is a scene with him and Steve Martin from PTAA where they open the trunk, which i have never known of and can't find anything about online. Now I am down a rabbit hole of Reddit theories.

Just a really nice piece on a really nice and funny guy 7.5/10 Mogs

Nickp82

3,974 posts

123 months

Wednesday 15th October 2025
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Thanks for pointing this out , will be giving it a watch ASAP

miniman

Original Poster:

30,116 posts

292 months

Wednesday 15th October 2025
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Big Raff said:
Not going to hide this one, but after all the credits, which I had on because of the song played there is a scene with him and Steve Martin from PTAA where they open the trunk, which i have never known of and can't find anything about online. Now I am down a rabbit hole of Reddit theories.
Yes that was interesting, I might do a bit of Redditting later!

The Gauge

7,519 posts

43 months

Friday 7th November 2025
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Loved this, great documentary and what an absolutely lovely guy he was