To Chet's dismay, Connie reveals that she invited the Craigs to stay with them until they can recover. Cammie accepts Buck's apologies and they end their brief romance. The next morning, the families part on amicable terms. Roaring in pain, the bear runs out of the house. Chet takes the shotgun lamp and shoots the bear, blowing the fur off its rear. Wally bursts in with a loaded shotgun lamp while Roman tries to hold off the animal with a fireplace poker and an oar. It chases him back to the cabin, smashes through the door, and rampages through the house. Upon returning with the rope, Chet is horrified to discover the "Bald-Headed Bear" lurking in the mine. Upon realizing that the mine is stocked with old dynamite, Roman takes his daughters and escapes the shaft on his own. After some encouragement from Chet, Roman reluctantly climbs down into the mine, while Chet searches for a rope to pull them out. Chet and Roman find them at the bottom of an old mine shaft, but the claustrophobic Roman is afraid to descend into the tiny space. His true intention for coming up to the lake was to solicit money from Chet to financially recover.ĭuring a thunderstorm, Kate discovers the twins have gone missing. Upon his return, Roman confesses that the story about the wedding conversation never happened and that he is broke from some failed investments. Now feeling guilty himself, Roman halts the car and returns to the cabin. On the car ride home, Kate praises Roman for including Chet in the investment, noting that $25,000 is a lot of money for Chet's family to part with. The families say their goodbyes and Roman and his family head back to Chicago. Feeling guilty from the wedding story, Chet is initially reluctant, but eventually agrees to write Roman a check for the whole amount. Roman then tells Chet why he came up to visit: to offer Chet a $25,000 investment opportunity. Later, just at the peak of tension between families, Roman tells of the time at his and Kate's wedding when he overheard a conversation between Chet and their father-in-law describing how they think Roman is a crooked businessman. Buck tries to apologize to Cammie for being late, but Cammie refuses to speak to him.Ĭonnie and Kate bond at a local bar when the conversation drifts to Kate's feelings of loneliness with Roman despite their wealth. The budding romance goes well until Chet is challenged to eat a 96-ounce steak called "the Old 96'er" at the restaurant "Paul Bunyan's Cupboard" which causes Buck to break their date. Chet is ready to pack up and go home even as his teenage son Buck tries to romance a local girl named Cammie. When he fired at it with a shotgun, the buckshot shaved the hair off the top of the bear's head and from then on, it was known as the "Bald-Headed Bear" of Clare County.Īfter Roman pulls Chet around Lake Potowotominimac on an impromptu water ski ride with his rented speedboat, tensions between the families erupt. Chet says that while he and Connie were honeymooning at the same lake, he was attacked by a giant grizzly bear. Ghost stories after the family BBQ include one of a man-eating grizzly bear that Chet met directly when he was younger. All goes as planned until Connie's sister Kate, her investment broker husband Roman Craig, and their twin daughters Mara and Cara arrive uninvited. They get a vacation cabin called The Loon's Nest from its owner Wally. The film was met with mixed reviews, but has since gained a cult following.Ĭhicagoan Chester "Chet" Ripley, his wife Connie, and their two sons Buckley "Buck" and Ben are spending a week vacationing at Wally and Juanita's Perk's Pine Lodge Resort in Pechoggin, Wisconsin, for the summer. Aykroyd, Candy, and Young reprise their roles from Hughes' previous film, She's Having a Baby. It tells the story of two families spending their week-long vacation at a lake resort in the fictional town of Pechoggin, Wisconsin with hilarious outcomes. The Great Outdoors is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Howard Deutch, written and produced by John Hughes, and starring Dan Aykroyd and John Candy with supporting roles done by Stephanie Faracy, Annette Bening (in her film debut), Chris Young, Lucy Deakins, and Robert Prosky.
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