"Actor: John Candy"

• Some Kind Of Wonderful / Pretty In Pink / Planes, Trains And Automobiles | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Ferris Bueller. Larger than life. Blessed with a magical sense of serendipity. He's a model for all those who take themselves too seriously. A guy who knows the value of a day off. Ferris Bueller's Day Off chronicles the events in the day of a rather magical young man Ferris (Matthew Broderick). One spring day toward the end of his senior year Ferris gives in to an overwhelming urge to cut school and head for downtown Chicago with his girl (Mia Sa

• The Silent Partner (Special Edition) | Blu Ray | (18/06/2019) from £37.10   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Blues Brothers | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £14.87   |  Saving you £15.12 (101.68%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Blues Brothers (Dir. John Landis 1980): They'll never get caught. They're on a mission from God. After the release of Jake Blues (John Belushi) from prison he and brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) go to visit the orphanage where they were raised by nuns. They learn that the church stopped its support and will sell the place unless the tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The brothers decide to raise the money by putting their blues band back together and stagin

• Uncle Buck/Stripes/Brewster's Millions | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Uncle Buck (Dir. John Hughes 1989): An idle good natured bachelor is left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. Unaccustomed to family life Buck soon charms his younger relatives but his style doesn't impress everyone including his girlfriend. The film charts his progress from slob to a reasonable human being by having to manage with girlfriend troubles unemployment a sex mad neighbour cooking breakfast and a beautiful but rebellious niece. Stripes (Dir. Ivan Reitman 1981): The story of a man who wanted to keep the world safe for democracy...and meet girls. When John Winger (Bill Murray) loses his job his car his apartment and his girlfriend-all in one day-he decides he only has one option: volunteer for Uncle Sam. Way over their head they eventually learn the ropes and manage to take a top-secret U.S. recreational vehicle behind the Iron Curtain on a road trip... Brewster's Millions (Dir. Walter Hill 1985): Brewster (Pryor) a lowly pitcher with the minor league Hackensack Bulls baseball team suddenly is left $300 million by a distant relative. But there's a catch; he must spend $30 million in thirty days without having any assets to show for it. And if he reveals it to a soul the real reason why he's throwing away all his cash he will forfeit everything! So aided and abetted by his team mate Spike (Candy) and a stream of hangers-on Brewster begins a spending spree that would bring any self-respecting accountant to his knees...

• Turner And Hooch/Splash | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Turner And Hooch (Dir. Roger Spottiswoode) (1989):Tom Hanks stars as Scott Turner a compulsively neat detective whose tidy world goes to the dogs when he's forced to team up with a drooling slob of a junkyard pooch named Hooch. Not exactly man's best friend Hooch turns Turner's life upside down wrecking Turner's home career and budding romance! It's a hilarious non-stop test of wills between this mismatched duo leading to the most unlikely friendship you've ever seen! Splash (Dir. Ron Howard) (1984): A star-studded cast including Tom Hanks Daryl Hannah and John Candy join together for this hilarious comedy. The fun starts when a successful businessman (Hanks) falls in love with the girl of his dreams (Daryl Hannah). There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook line and sinker for a mermaid.

• Planes, Trains and Automobiles | Blu Ray | (23/11/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Armed And Dangerous | DVD | (19/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  John Candy and Eugene Levy charge into the world of private security in the outrageous action-comedy Armed And Dangerous. Unfortunately they're usually charging in the wrong direction! When Candy abungling cop and Levy an inept lawyer lose their jobs they wind up together at the Guard Dog Security Company. After thorough training in the use of firearms (for two hours) they're raring to go. But even as security guards they can't cut it and rip-offs take place right under their noses. Eventually they figure out the robberies aren't coincidental and that their company is in cahoots with the security union's mobster president (Robert Loggia Jagged Edge). Eager to snag the crooks Candy and Levy set out as spies and in a wild car chase turn a million-dollar heist into an armored carnival! When the dust finally settles Candy and Levy save the day as the hilarious rent-a-cop duowho are never more funny than when they're Armed and Dangerous.

• Going Berserk | DVD | (06/06/2016) from £6.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (225.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Featuring one of John Candy's earliest leading roles, Going Berserk is a laugh-out-loud comedy part slapstick, part sharp wit that'll have you howling from the first scene till the credits roll. John Bourgignon couldn't be happier. In a few weeks, the tubby limousine driver played by Emmy award-winner John Candy (Planes, Trains and Automobiles) will walk down the aisle with Nancy Reese, a bombshell blonde with ties to big money. But Nancy's father, a US congressman and presidential hopeful, can't stand the idea of his daughter getting hitched up to a lowly chauffer. While trying to impress his father-in-law to be (Pat Hingle, of Splendor in the Grass and Norma Rae), happy-go-lucky John finds himself mixed up with the wrong crowd. As his wedding day looms ever closer, the bumbling, lovable driver is confronted with blackmail, brainwash, a murder plot, a jailbreak, a religious cult of aerobics instructors the list goes on. With a little (not-so-helpful) assistance from his sleazy, film-director friend (Eugene Levy, National Lampoon's Vacation) and limo-driving sidekick (Joe Flaherty, Stripes, Happy Gilmore), John stumbles his way towards the altar, with plenty of side-splitting laughs to be had along the way.

• Home Alone / Home Alone 2 - Lost In New York / Home Alone 3 | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Home Alone-Eight-year-old Kevin McAllister (Macaulay Culkin) has become the man of the house overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them! Written and produced by John Hughes (101 Dalmatians) this madcap slapstick adventure features an all-star supporting cast including Catherine O'Hara and John Heard as Kevin's parents Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern as the burglars and John Candy (Planes Trains and Automobiles) as the 'Polka King of the Midwest.'Home Alone 2 - Lost In New York -Kevin McAllister (Macaulay Culkin) is back! But this time he's in New York City - with enough cash and credit cards to turn the big apple into his own playground! But Kevin won't be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) Still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin are bound for New York too plotting a huge holiday heist. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps the bumbling bandits will never forget! Home Alone 3 -The US Air Force has a new secret weapon - and he's only eight years old! From comedy legend John Hughes comes this hilarious action packed hit. A band of international crooks has hidden a military computer chip inside a toy car but an airport mix-up lands it in the hands of whiz-kid Alex Pruitt (Alex D. Linz) who's home alone with the chicken pox in a quiet Chicago suburb. When the criminals zero in on Alex's house with their high-tech gadgetry madness and mayhem kick into high gear as the pint-sized hero defends himself against the bumbling bad guys - armed with an outrageous array of ambushes and booby traps!

• Films That Define A Decade: '80s | Blu Ray | (22/08/2016) from £15.00   |  Saving you £-1.54 (-11.40%)   |  RRP £13.46

  The excessive ˜80s... where everyone had huge hairdos and massive shoulder pads, mobile phones were the size of bricks and the movies were larger than life. We had John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd starring as The Blues Brothers; An American Werewolf in London took horror to new heights; a young Al Pacino thrilled as the iconic Scarface; and Kurt Russell challenged shape-shifting aliens in The Thing.

• Stripes | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The story of a man who wanted to keep the world safe for democracy...and meet girls. When John Winger (Bill Murray) loses his job his car his apartment and his girlfriend-all in one day-he decides he only has one option: volunteer for Uncle Sam. Way over their head they eventually learn the ropes and manage to take a top-secret U.S. recreational vehicle behind the Iron Curtain on a road trip...

• Once Upon A Crime | Blu Ray | (05/12/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An out of work actor (Richard Lewis) and a just-jilted woman (Sean Young) find they are competing to return a lost dachshund to it's owner and collect the $5,000 reward. They go from Rome to Monte Carlo together but when they find the owner, he has been murdered and they are the prime suspects, along with a compulsive gambler (John Candy) and a hideous American (James Belushi).

• Home Alone / Home Alone 2 / Home Alone 3 / Home Alone 4 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £14.79   |  Saving you £15.20 (102.77%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Volunteers | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The year is 1962. Aristocrat and all round spoilt brat Lawrence Bourne III (Tom Hanks) seems to have it all. But things are about to change drastically for him. After his parents refuse to bail him out of his gambling debts Lawrence takes drastic measures and jumps aboard a Peace Corps flight to Southeast Asia. Suddenly Lawrence finds himself on a remote tropical island with the ultimate American Patriot Tom Tuttle (John Candy) and the smart resourceful Beth Wexler (played by Tom Hanks'' future wife Rita Wilson). Their mission is to help build a bridge for local villagers a challenging task that unwittingly brings them into conflict with lunatic communists psychotic drug barons a socially inept U.S Army and brainwashing. A worthy entry into Tom Hanks output of eighties comedies (that included Bachelor Party Splash and The Money Pit) Volunteers once again cast him opposite his Splash co-star and comedy legend John Candy (Uncle Buck Trains Planes and Automobiles) and other cult performers Rita Wilson (Teen Witch Runaway Bride) Tim Thomerson (Trancers Iron Eagle Zone Troopers) and Gedde Watanabe (Sixteen Candles UHF EDtv).

• Sesame Street: Follow That Bird | DVD | (14/10/2011) from £10.78   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Richard Pryor - Car Wash/Stir Crazy/Brewster's Millions/See No Evil, Hear No Evil | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: Car Wash: An ensemble piece which interweaves the lives of employees customers and passers-by Car Wash stars a galaxy of gifted actors most of whom are relatively unknown to movie goers and spotlights an array of guest stars in vivid cameo roles. Stir Crazy: Playwright Skip Donahue (Wilder) and actor Harry Monroe (Pryor) are out of work and penniless. Deciding they have had enough of Broadway they set off to make their fortunes and find freedom down South. On the way their funds get so low that they have to find work; as singing dancing Woodpeckers promoting a bank. Plagued by bad luck thieves steal their costumes and rob the bank and guess who gets the blame and get put jail? Brewster's Millions: Brewster (Pryor) a lowly pitcher with the minor league Hackensack Bulls baseball team suddenly is left 0 million by a distant relative. But there's a catch; he must spend million in thirty days without having any assets to show for it. And if he reveals it to a soul the real reason why he's throwing away all his cash he will forfeit everything! So aided and abetted by his team mate Spike (Candy) and a stream of hangers-on Brewster begins a spending spree that would bring any self-respecting accountant to his knees... See No Evil Hear No Evil: Two men are witness to a murder - a blind man who couldn't see it and a deaf man who couldn't hear it but somehow they become prime suspects in the case. They escape the police and set out to catch the bad guy themselves...

• Shatter Dead | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £6.09   |  Saving you £3.90 (39.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  There's no more room in heaven either. Winner of the Best U.S. Independent feature film at the Fantafilm Festival this is a modern take on the zombie genre. When the dead stop dying they want to live normally amongst the living. When the living refuse to have zombies in their midst a bloody war breaks out between the living and the dead. Previously unreleased in the UK.

• Films That Define A Decade: '80s | DVD | (22/08/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.00

  The excessive ˜80s... where everyone had huge hairdos and massive shoulder pads, mobile phones were the size of bricks and the movies were larger than life. We had John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd starring as The Blues Brothers; An American Werewolf in London took horror to new heights; a young Al Pacino thrilled as the iconic Scarface; and Kurt Russell challenged shape-shifting aliens in The Thing.

• Volunteers | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ready Or Not Here They Come! Life has taken a turn for the worse for Lawrence Bourne III (Tom Hanks). He's on the run from the bookies in debt for $28 000 and although he comes from money nothing but trouble seems to be coming his way. Lawrence persuades a friend to let him take his place on a plane leaving that night for Thailand - and before he knows it old-money Lawrence ends up in the no-money Thailand to work with the Peace Corps! Down amongst the do-gooders like To

• Home Alone/Home Alone 2/Home Alone 3 | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £22.97   |  Saving you £-2.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Home Alone.Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) has become the man of the house overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them!Home Alone 2.Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is back! But this time he's in New York City - with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his own playground! But Kevin won't be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin are bound for New York too plotting a huge holiday heist.Home Alone 3.A band of international crooks has hidden a military computer chip inside a toy car but an airport mix-up lands it in the hands of whiz-kid Alex Pruitt (Alex D. Linz) who's home alone with the chicken pox. When the criminals zero in on Alex's house with their high-tech gadgetry madness and mayhem kick into high gear as the pint-sized hero defends himself against the bumbling bad guys - armed with an outrageous array of ambushes and booby traps!