It's not a great screenplay, frankly. An overbearing mother won't accept her son's attempts to settle down with a nice girl from the mortuary. The mother, played by Maureen O'Hara, doesn't have any nice qualities, and nor does John Candy's friend, James Belushi, who's a creep. Plus Candy's brother, Kevin Dunn, moves them to Florida when Candy's specifically told him he didn't want to.
Candy and Ally Sheedy don't really have much chemistry, to be honest, though it's always nice to see the big feller.
Rather nicely photographed by Julio Macat and Maurice Jarre's good score isn't interrupted too often by pop songs.
Didn't recognise the Clark Gable clip, which bizarrely wasn't credited (it was the 1935 version of the Jack London story Call of the Wild).
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