The Great Outdoors

  • Theatrical - Wide 1988-06-17
Box Office Gross: $43,455,230
Running Time: 91 minutes
Language: English
Production Company: Universal Pictures, Hughes Entertainment
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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... See more wife, Kate, and the couple’s two daughters. As the excursion wears on, the Ripleys find themselves at odds with the stuffy Craig family.

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