Stripes
Ox joined the Army to get fit but he has his hands full with these ladies when his unit goes out for a night on the town.
National Lampoon's Vacation
His hapless Wally World security guard can only go along for the ride once Clark Griswold demands that his family get the VIP treatment at the closed theme park.
Splash
Womanizer Freddie has issues but at least helps younger brother Tom Hanks get his mermaid girlfriend back in the 1984 comedy.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
One of the greatest accidental-road-trip comedies ever, Candy's annoying traveling salesman Del is thrown together with Steve Martin's businessman Neal and ends up teaching him a thing or two about patience the kindness of strangers.
Spaceballs
Barfolomew is a little easier to understand than Chewbacca in the classic Mel Brooks-directed Star Wars spoof.
The Great Outdoors
On what's supposed to be a cozy rustic getaway with his wife and kids, Candy's family man instead has to contend with his wife's snobby brother-in-law, played by Dan Aykroyd, who shows up uninvited with his family. There's also a memorable run-in with a bear.
Uncle Buck
Greatest. Babysitter. Ever. When Grandpa has a medical emergency, Mom and Dad leave kids Macaulay Culkin, Gabby Hoffman and Jean Louisa Kelly with Dad's no-nonsense yet hilarious brother.
Home Alone
Candy's polka player with a heart of gold offers Catherine O'Hara's frantic mom a memorable ride to Chicago, where little Macaulay Culkin was accidentally left to his own devices during his family's mad dash to the airport.
Who's Harry Crumb?
Candy's private eye is a master of disguise, but not really, in this caper comedy.
Only the Lonely
Mama's boy Danny finds love with an equally lost soul but has a time of it trying to figure out how to balance the two women in his life.
Delirious
Soap opera writer Jack Gable wakes up to find himself part of one of his plots, which of course involves a love triangle.
JFK
Candy took a turn for the serious and yet still kooky as Dean Andrews Jr., a real-life attorney who testified before the Warren Commission that he was asked to represent Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in court, in Oliver Stone's conspiracy-theory drama.
Cool Runnings
Candy's Irv Blitzer is the coach of Jamaica's first Olympic bobsled team in this 1993 Cinderella story.
Wagons East!
A couple of settlers who find the West a little too wild hire Candy's grizzled wagon master to ferry them back to where they came from. Candy passed away during the production's final days, on March 4, 1994.
Canadian Bacon
The United States goes to war against its neighbor to the north in this satire directed by Michael Moore—yes, that Michael Moore. Though shot before Wagons East!, it was released afterward and ended up being Candy's final film in theaters.
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