Season 2 · Episode 29 ·
Canadian Bacon
The One Where John Candy Invades Canada
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 19%
- Budget
- $11 million
- Box office
- $178,104
Budget and box office via TMDB.
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About the episode
This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Canadian Bacon (1995), the only fiction film from Michael Moore, which scored 19% on Rotten Tomatoes and turned an $11 million budget into $180,000 at the box office. Alan Alda plays a president with sinking approval ratings who invents a new Cold War enemy: Canada. John Candy plays a Niagara Falls sheriff who believes all of it and leads his friends across the border. It was Candy's last released film. Aaron calls it a one-joke movie that never finds its legs.
Tune in as we ask questions like:
- Do you think we should invade Canada?
- If we can have English pubs and French bistros, why can't we have Canadian pubs?
- Are there just two types of bacon?
- Does anybody know the words to "Born in the USA"?
- Do we need a Rip Torn biopic?
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About the movie
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.
- Director
- Michael Moore
- Starring
- John Candy, Alan Alda, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak, Rip Torn, Kevin J. O'Connor
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Genre
- Comedy
Movie details via TMDB.
