Overview

• Directed by Colin Hanks, the feature is now streaming on Prime Video after a festival run that included opening the 50th Toronto International Film Festival.
• The film assembles extensive archives from Candy’s SCTV years through his movie stardom alongside interviews with family and peers.
• Participants include Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short, Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Macaulay Culkin, Conan O’Brien and Mel Brooks.
• Recent reviews highlight a warm, celebratory portrait rich in nostalgia that many say edges toward hagiography.
• The documentary acknowledges Candy’s anxiety, body-image concerns and heavy drinking, smoking and overeating, with son Chris recounting at an Oct. 8 Brooklyn event that media fixation on weight shaped his father’s eating habits; Candy died of a heart attack in 1994.