Actor: John Candy

John Candy came from SCTV in Canada alongside Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara, and moved into film with a particular quality that is difficult to fake: audiences simply liked him.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles is the performance, and the reveal about Del Griffith’s circumstances converts a comedy into something else entirely in about ninety seconds.

Uncle Buck, Only the Lonely and Cool Runnings followed. He died in 1994 at forty-three during filming in Mexico, and the affection for him has not diminished since.

JFK (1991) film posterDonald Sutherland

JFK (1991)

1991 Oliver Stone conspiracy drama with Kevin Costner as New Orleans DA Jim Garrison prosecuting Clay Shaw for the Kennedy assassination. JFK is Oliver Stone's 1991 American historical drama.

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Heavy Metal (1981) film posterEugene Levy

Heavy Metal (1981)

Multiple animation studios contributed individual segments under different supervising animators. The film made approximately twenty million dollars on a nine million dollar budget.

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