The Great Outdoors
This is no holiday… this is war!
Film19881h 31m
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- Director
- Howard Deutch
- Language
- English
- Released
- 1988-06-17
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
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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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