My Ranking of John Candy Films

A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.

Laid back commitment-phobe Buck babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister.

A star-pilot for hire and his trusty sidekick must come to the rescue of a princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the evil Spaceballs.

When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team.

Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.

A young man is reunited with a mermaid he briefly encountered as a boy and falls in love with her without knowing her secret.

A Chicago man and his family go camping with his obnoxious brother-in-law.

Despite the police's preemptive strike, the illegal coast-to-coast car race is still on with new drivers. It's a race where fair play, red lights, stop signs, police roadblocks and traffic rules in general have no validity.

A minor-league baseball player must spend $30 million in 30 days in order to inherit $300 million. However, he's not allowed to own any assets, destroy the money, gift it, give it to charity, or tell anyone about the deal.

R.A.S. agents Miss Bianca and Bernard race to Australia to save a little boy and a rare golden eagle from a murderous poacher.

A fired cop and useless lawyer sign up as security guards and find they've joined a corrupt union.

A Chicago cop must balance loyalty to his controlling mother and a relationship with a shy funeral home worker.

An overworked air-traffic controller takes his family on a beach vacation but is soon beset by series of mishaps.

Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.

After graduating from Yale in 1962, womanizing Lawrence flees a gambling debt that his rich dad won't pay and takes his roomie's place as Peace Corps Volunteer in Thai Golden Triangle with two other PCVs. Will he survive two years?

A clumsy chauffeur is hypnotized by a cult to kill the father of his fiancée, a congressman who's suing the cult for fraud, and encounters several weird characters during the days leading up to his wedding.

An insecure stockbroker teams up with Don the Talking Horse, a chatty four-legged financial advisor.

The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war against Canada.

Phoebe and a fellow American in Rome find a dog with a $5000 reward. They take a train to the owner in Monte Carlo. She turns up murdered. They run and become suspects just as 3 other Americans on the train.

A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.

In the 1860s Wild West, a ragged bunch of misfit settlers decides they cannot stand living in their current situation and they hire a grizzled cowboy to take them on a journey back East to their hometowns.

A businessman and his friends are captured by a sadistic judge and his equally odd family in a bizarre mansion in the backwoods.