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The best thing you can say about this scattershot political satire is that the late John Candy's next-to-last picture is relatively funnier and less depressing than his valedictory Wagons East.
Mike Clark, USA Today
Canadian Bacon
It's lonely at the top when there's no butt left to kick.
1995 · 1h 31m · PG
Comedy
Directed by
Michael Moore
Overview
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 and cast
- Michael Moore Director
- John Candy as Sheriff Bud B. Boomer
- Alan Alda as U.S. President
- Rhea Perlman as Deputy Honey
- Kevin Pollak as Stuart Smiley, National Security Advisor
- Rip Torn as General Dick Panzer
- Kevin J. O'Connor as Roy Boy
- Bill Nunn as Kabral Jabar
- G. D. Spradlin as R.J. Hacker, President of Hacker Dynamics
- Jim Belushi as Charles Jackal, NBS Reporter
- Steven Wright Cast
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