"Colin Hanks remembers the exact moment he met John Candy. He was just a child when his father, Tom (you may have heard of him before), starred in Splash with Candy, yet the Canadian comedian talked to Colin as if he weren't a six-year-old with zero business walking around a film set. Even as a kid, he connected with me, Hanks tells me. He made me feel heard, and that's rare for an adult to make that kind of impression on a kid."
"The now-47-year-old actor and filmmaker was no novice documentary filmmaker. Hanks directed 2015's All Things Must Pass, a film about the rise and fall of Tower Records. He also made a 2017 film on the California rock band Eagles of Death Metal. Although he wasn't actively searching for his next documentary subject at the time, he knew that he could do John Candy's story justice only if he found the right angle."
Colin Hanks recalls an early personal connection with John Candy, who treated him kindly on a film set when Hanks was a child. Ryan Reynolds later cold-called Hanks proposing a John Candy documentary, citing his admiration for Candy. Hanks brought documentary experience from films about Tower Records and Eagles of Death Metal and sought a meaningful angle. Conversations with Candy's family revealed that Candy's father died when Candy was five, a formative event that became the emotional key for the film. The resulting documentary, John Candy: I Like Me, premieres on Amazon Prime Video.
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