Bart the Bear

The Great Outdoors (1988)

[6] John Candy and Dan Aykroyd costar as prickly brothers-in-law who try their best to get along after Aykroyd unceremoniously crashes Candy’s planned family vacation. The Great Outdoors was spawned from the ever-prolific pen of John Hughes, coming off a string of hits that included Planes Trains and Automobiles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Weird Science, and The Breakfast Club. (The man was truly a force …

The Edge (1997)

[7] Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, and Harold Perrineau survive a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness where they have to rely on each other for survival against the elements and a bloodthirsty kodiak bear who follows them everywhere they go. So we’ve got ‘man against nature’ and ‘man against beast’ going on. Writer David Mamet and director Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors) go one step …