The Great Outdoors
The wildlife is wild, but his brother-in-law in unbearable.
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6/17/1988Runtime
91 minsGenres
Overview
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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EnglishBudget
$24,000,000Revenue
$43,455,230Homepage
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A rambling comedy about two families crammed into a cabin where personality clashes, mishaps, and nature itself conspire to test everyone's patience and patience for each other. It's the kind of film that finds humor in the gap between vacation fantasy and messy reality.
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