The Great Outdoors (1988)

This is no holiday… this is war!

91 min★ 6.6 · 57,126 votes

• Comedy

It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman Craig, his wife, Kate, and the couple's two daughters. As the excursion wears on, the Ripleys find themselves at odds with the stuffy Craig family.

Release date

June 17, 1988

Country of origin

United States

Music

Thomas Newman

Budget

$24,000,000

Box office

$43,455,230