Overview

• John Candy: I Like Me premieres on Prime Video on Oct. 10 following its Sept. 4 world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
• The new People reporting highlights accounts in the film of Candy’s severe anxiety and mounting health issues as his fame grew.
• Friends recall that during Wagons East! his anxiety spiked, with one longtime friend recounting in the film that he was later found having sat up with a Bible before dying in his sleep.
• At an Oct. 2 Los Angeles screening, son Chris Candy said his father likely would have been uncomfortable being the subject, while noting how much he learned about his dad’s influence on later comedians.
• Directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds, the documentary blends home movies with interviews featuring Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Martin Short, Mel Brooks, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, and Dan Aykroyd, while acknowledging Candy’s 1994 death at 43 from a heart attack in Mexico.