Canadian Bacon

Starring: Alan Alda, John Candy, Rhea Perlman, et al.

Product Description

The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war against Canada.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 027616861153
• Release Date: May 1993
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
• Director: Michael Moore
• Starring: Alan Alda, John Candy, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak, Rip Torn, Bill Nunn, Kevin J. O'Connor, G.D. Spradlin, Carlton Watson
• Runtime: 1 hour, 31 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: anamorphic
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Everything I know about Canada is from this film.

The basic story is that we need to heat up the Cold War (1995). This will take the focus off the president for the slouching economy. The Russians are unwilling to play the game, so we must find a new adversary. Canada wins the choice. Comedy is like smiling. You take a situation that you cannot do anything about or an attitude that you cannot do anything about, and just laugh at it. This movie is the essence of what many people think they know about Canada. It also contains what many people snicker at, politics. So, let us take it to the extreme, add John Candy, Rhea Perlman, a few eh’s, and a too-clean-to-be-true environment; you have “Canadian bacon”. What makes this comedy is not the story but the one-liners and the parody of Canadian life. One of everybody’s favorites is when a truck is stopped because it has obscenities written on the side of it. The authority, OPP Officer (Dan Aykroyd, born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), points out that the obscenity is written only in English and must also be written in French.