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The Great Outdoors

The Great Outdoors

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 17, 1988

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

64%

Original Title

The Great Outdoors

Production Companies

Universal Pictures, Hughes Entertainment

Director

Howard Deutch

Budget

$24,000,000

Revenue

$43,455,230

Description

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.