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    The Great Outdoors 1988 POSTER

    The Great Outdoors

    1988

    English

    6.6

    37

    42%

    71%

    Action

    attachment to nature

    Comedy

    grizzly bear

    holiday

    roommate

    roommates

    wisconsin

    Howard Deutch Howard Deutch Director Lucy Deakins Lucy Deakins as Cammie John Candy John Candy as Chet Ripley Lewis Arquette Lewis Arquette as Herm Nancy Lenehan Nancy Lenehan as Waitress
    It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman Craig, his wife, Kate, and the couple's two daughters. As the excursion wears on, the Ripleys find themselves at odds with the stuffy Craig family.
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