All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring John Candy, ranked

Blues vocalist and petty criminal Joliet Jake Blues is paroled on good behavior grounds from Joliet Correctional Center after serving three years of a five-year sentence, and is picked up by his blood brother Elwood in his Bluesmobile, a battered, decommissioned police car. The brothers visit the Roman Catholic orphanage where they were raised, and learn from Sister Mary the Penguin Stigmata and old friend Curtis that it will be closed unless $5,000 in property taxes is collected.

Planet Spaceball, led by the incompetent President Skroob, has squandered all of its fresh air. Skroob schemes to force King Roland of the neighboring planet Druidia to give them the code to the shield that protects Druidia, allowing them to steal all their air, by kidnapping his daughter Princess Vespa on the day of her arranged marriage to the narcoleptic Prince Valium.

In the Australian Outback, a young boy named Cody rescues and befriends a rare golden eagle called Marahute, who shows him her nest and eggs. They go to find Orville the albatross, who aided them to rescue Penny previously in the original film, but instead meet his brother, Wilbur, whom they convince to fly them to Australia.

Monty Brewster is a Minor League Baseball pitcher with the Hackensack Bulls. At the Manhattan law office of Granville & Baxter, Brewster is told that his recently deceased great-uncle Rupert Horn, whom he has never met, has left him his entire $300 million fortune, but only if he can complete a challenge with several conditions.

In 1964, eight-year-old Allen Bauer is vacationing with his family near Cape Cod. Underwater, he encounters a mermaid girand inexplicably finds himself able to breathe under water. However, Allen is pulled back to the surface, and the two are separated. Twenty years later, Allen returns to Cape Cod, where he encounters eccentric scientist Dr. Walter Kornbluth, who is determined to discover legendary sea creatures.