Overview

• The feature opened TIFF’s 50th edition and began streaming on Prime Video on Oct. 10.
• Interviewees include Bill Murray, Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, Catherine O’Hara, Dan Aykroyd, Martin Short, Macaulay Culkin and Eugene Levy.
• Candy’s widow and children served as co‑executive producers, using the project to reflect on grief, therapy and mental health.
• The film highlights newly emphasized details about Candy’s severe late‑life anxiety, including an anxiety attack en route to the Wagons East! set before his 1994 death at 43 from a heart attack.
• Early critiques praise the affection and access yet fault a reverential tone and heavy reliance on talking heads over archival material.