Director and actor
John Hughes averages 6.98, John Candy averages 6.27. Apart that suggests 6.63; together they average 7.35, a lift of +0.72.
Lift is the average of their films together minus the mean of their two career averages.
1987Best
1988
1989
1991Dot size shows IMDb votes; lines are rolling five-film averages. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes are left out.
| Sixteen Candles '84 | The Breakfast Club '85 | Weird Science '85 | Planes, Trains & … '87 | She's Having a Ba… '88 | Uncle Buck '89 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Candy | ||||||
| Anthony Michael Hall | ||||||
| Kevin Bacon | ||||||
| Molly Ringwald |
Each column is a film in release order. Filled squares mark who was in it, colored by the film's rating.
 Planes, Trains & Automobiles | 1987 | 7.6 | 182K | Director, Writer, Producer | as Del Griffith |
 The Great Outdoors | 1988 | 6.6 | 57,072 | Writer | as Chet Ripley (not counted) |
 Uncle Buck | 1989 | 7.1 | 123K | Writer, Director, Producer | as Buck Russell |
 Only the Lonely | 1991 | 6.4 | 13,599 | Producer | as Danny Muldoon (not counted) |
