Rating: PG-13 | Runtime: 113 minutes
Release Date: October 10th, 2025 (USA)
Studio: Amazon Prime Video
Director(s): Colin Hanks

The word is grand.

A really wonderful memorial for a celebrity everyone who watched him loved and a man everyone who knew him loved more.

Absolutely adore the thought of him taking so many of his roles as a means to play himself: a father, a friend, an empathetic soul.

The clips bring you back to make you laugh and cry all over again, but the words (Macaulay Culkin on how John never talked down to kids and genuinely sought to make sure he was okay; Chris Candy crediting his father’s willingness to go to therapy as a reason for his own treatment; Candy turning down roles that demanded travel because he wanted to be home with his kids) truly resonate. And Colin Hanks utilizes every bit of what seems to be a treasure trove of home movies, photos, and trinkets to their fullest value.

He was a man who never let his demons haunt anyone but himself. An artist who could tap into the sort of pain you can only know exists because you feel it yourself. And a legend so larger than life that he inevitably made good on the gag to actually become Johnny Toronto.

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John Candy in JOHN CANDY: I LIKE ME; Photo Credit: Prime Video © Amazon Content Services LLC.