<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $43.4 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Great Outdoors is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Howard Deutch, and written and produced by John Hughes . It stars Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Stephanie Faracy and Annette Bening in her film debut . </P> <P> The film follows two families spending time on vacation in Wisconsin . </P> <P> Chicagoan Chester "Chet" Ripley, his wife, Connie, and their two sons, Buckley "Buck" and Ben, are on vacation at a lake resort in Pechoggin, Wisconsin during the summer . All is going as planned until Connie's sister, Kate, Kate's investment broker husband, Roman Craig, and their twin daughters, Mara and Cara, crash the vacation . </P>

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