| | Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 72 | Earnings: $49.23M Lead Role: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean, | Director: John Hughes, A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving with an obnoxious slob of a shower curtain ring salesman as his only companion. |
| | The Blues Brothers (1980)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 60 | Earnings: $54.20M Lead Role: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway, John Candy, | Director: John Landis, Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised. |
| | Spaceballs (1987)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 46 | Earnings: $38.12M Lead Role: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, | Director: Mel Brooks, Planet Spaceballs' President Skroob sends Lord Dark Helmet to steal planet Druidia's abundant supply of air to replenish their own, and only Lone Starr can stop them. |
| | Stripes (1981)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $85.30M Lead Role: Bill Murray, John Candy, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, | Director: Ivan Reitman, Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun. |
| | Splash (1984)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 71 | Earnings: $69.80M Lead Role: Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, John Candy, | Director: Ron Howard, A young man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is. |
| | Cool Runnings (1993)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 60 | Earnings: $68.86M Lead Role: John Candy, Leon, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis, | Director: Jon Turteltaub, 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. |
| | Uncle Buck (1989)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 51 | Earnings: $66.76M Lead Role: John Candy, Macaulay Culkin, Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffmann, | Director: John Hughes, Bachelor and all round slob, Buck, babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister. |
| | Summer Rental (1985)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 38 | Earnings: null Lead Role: John Candy, Richard Crenna, Rip Torn, Karen Austin, | Director: Carl Reiner, An overworked air-traffic controller takes his family on a beach vacation but is soon beset by series of mishaps. |
| | The Rescuers Down Under (1990)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: $27.93M Lead Role: Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, John Candy, Tristan Rogers, | Director: The R.A.S. agents, Miss Bianca and Bernard, race to Australia to save a boy and a rare golden eagle from a murderous poacher. |
| | The Great Outdoors (1988)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: $41.46M Lead Role: Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Stephanie Faracy, Annette Bening, | Director: Howard Deutch, A Chicago man's hope for a peaceful family vacation in the woods is shattered when the annoying in-laws drop in. |
| | Heavy Metal (1981)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Richard Romanus, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks, | Director: A glowing green orb - which embodies ultimate evil - terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror. |
| | Brewster's Millions (1985)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: $38.80M Lead Role: Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins, | Director: Walter Hill, A minor-league baseball player has to spend $30,000,000 in thirty days in order to inherit $300,000,000. However, he's not allowed to tell anyone about the deal. |
| | Only the Lonely (1991)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: $21.83M Lead Role: John Candy, Maureen O'Hara, Ally Sheedy, Kevin Dunn, | Director: Chris Columbus, A Chicago cop must balance loyalty to his overbearing mother and a relationship with a shy funeral home worker. |
| | Canadian Bacon (1995)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: $0.18M Lead Role: John Candy, Alan Alda, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak, | Director: Michael Moore, The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war against Canada. |
| | Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: $10.98M Lead Role: John Candy, Jeffrey Jones, Annie Potts, Tim Thomerson, | Director: Paul Flaherty, 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. |
| | Once Upon a Crime... (1992)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: $8.70M Lead Role: John Candy, James Belushi, Cybill Shepherd, Sean Young, | Director: Eugene Levy, Phoebe and fellow American Julian Peters meet in Rome, find a lost dog, and agree to return it to Monte Carlo to split the five thousand dollar reward. Discovering the dog's owner dead, ... |
| | Delirious (1991)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: $5.55M Lead Role: John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms, Raymond Burr, | Director: Tom Mankiewicz, A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show. |
| | Armed and Dangerous (1986)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: $15.95M Lead Role: John Candy, Meg Ryan, Eugene Levy, Robert Loggia, | Director: Mark L. Lester, A fired cop and useless lawyer sign up as security guards and find they've joined a corrupt union. |
| | Volunteers (1985)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson, Tim Thomerson, | Director: Nicholas Meyer, Lawrence is a rich kid with a bad accent and a large debt. After his father refuses to help him out, Lawrence escapes his angry debtors by jumping on a Peace Corp flight to Southeast Asia, ... |
| | Going Berserk (1983)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: null Lead Role: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Alley Mills, | Director: David Steinberg, A drummer/chauffeur engaged to a congressman's daughter encounters a sleazy film director, the leader of an aerobics cult, and other crazed characters during the days leading up to his wedding. |
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