The Great Outdoors (film)

The Great Outdoors
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHoward Deutch
Written byJohn Hughes
Produced byJohn Hughes
Arne Schmidt
Starring
CinematographyRic Waite
Edited bySeth Flaum
William D. Gordean
Tom Rolf
Music byThomas Newman
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • June 17, 1988 (1988-06-17)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$43.5 million (US)[1]

The Great Outdoors is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Howard Deutch, written and produced by John Hughes, and starring Dan Aykroyd and John Candy with supporting roles by Stephanie Faracy, Annette Bening (in her film debut), Chris Young, Lucy Deakins, and Robert Prosky. The film is about two families spending a vacation at a fictional resort town in northern Wisconsin. Before The Great Outdoors appeared in theaters, Aykroyd, Candy, and Young portrayed their roles during the end credits of She's Having a Baby where they are among the people that pitch the idea names for the baby son of Jake and Kristy.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference mojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Ghostbusters, Frasier, Ferris Bueller and more are in a SHARED UNIVERSE". Digital Spy. 27 October 2019.