Who's Harry Crumb?

Who's Harry Crumb?


Starring:John Candy, Jeffrey Jones, Annie Potts, Tim Thomerson, Barry Corbin, Shawnee Smith, Valri Bromfield, Doug Steckler, Renée Coleman, Wesley Mann, Tamsin Kelsey, Joe Flaherty, Fiona Roeske, Lori O'Byrne, Michele Goodger, Beverley Elliott, P. Lynn Johnson, Peter Yunker, Brenda Crichlow, Garwin Sanford
Director: Paul Flaherty
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD
Who's Harry Crumb?
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • One of MY Favorite John Candy films
  • great fun
  • Funny but Candy's- done better! I did pass Suki's Hungarian Salon in Vancovuer on way 2 airport 11/05 going home from Grey Cup
  • WHO'S HARRY CRUMB? YOU WON'T BE SORRY YOU ASKED!
  • kinda funny?!
 Who's Harry Crumb?
Starring: John Candy , Jeffrey Jones , Annie Potts , Tim Thomerson , and Barry Corbin
Director: Paul Flaherty
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Ent
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 0767821467
Release Date: 2000-03-07

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars One of MY Favorite John Candy films.......2007-03-17

This movie and "Uncle Buck" are two of my favorite "Candy" films". John Candy has put out other greats as well but my top 2 are the above. In this movie, Candy is a bumbling detective but seems to get the job done "the Candy way". He knows everything, but what is going on! It's Great! The rest of the cast are irreplaceable. But It, Watch It.

5 out of 5 stars great fun .......2006-08-02

candy is funny man
the movie good casting
john plays very good types with costumes
in funny gum shoe

2 out of 5 stars Funny but Candy's- done better! I did pass Suki's Hungarian Salon in Vancovuer on way 2 airport 11/05 going home from Grey Cup .......2006-06-07

Child molester Jeffrey Jones (Ferris
Bueller's principal) does the worst
performance of his career. Full of lame
gags and dumb dialog, Shawny Smith, Barry
Corbin, Tim Thomerson and Candy come off
best in here. Good disguises though...
Candy as jockey - Yikes! The poor horses!
Even worse on them in Wagons East (*.5)!

5 out of 5 stars WHO'S HARRY CRUMB? YOU WON'T BE SORRY YOU ASKED!.......2005-11-27

IN A NUTSHELL -- "WHO IS HARRY CRUMB?":

John Candy plays bumbling Harry Crumb, the last survivor of a family of great detectives. This Crumb works in the agency his legendary grandfather founded, but he's been exiled to their "Greater Tulsa" office. Eliot Draisen (Jeffrey Jones) who somehow has become the Director of "Crumb and Crumb" assigns the inept Harry Crumb to find the kidnapped daughter of a multi-millionaire (played by the affable Barry Corbin from TV's "Northern Exposure"). There is a catch, however ... Draisen doesn't want the kidnappers found, for reasons of his own. While Crumb bumbles along through various mishaps (aided by his able assistant, Shawnee Smith) which are articulated via a series of ridiculously funny comedy skits, the kidnappers feel completely secure. In the meantime, Elliot Draisen tries to have his way with the millionaire's wife (Annie Potts), but does that have anything to do with the plot?

OKAY IT SOUNDS KIND OF PAT -- BUT:

In "Who's Harry Crumb?", it's all in the execution. The series of vignettes that make up the heart of the film are John Candy at his best. He plays a series of "under-cover" impersonations that run the gamut from Middle Eastern Vice-President of operations to a blonde transvestite [in the epilogue]. The idea is that somehow, despite his penchant for being a complete idiot, he somehow catches the kidnappers, by accident. But -- not before breaking his boss's prize dinosaur eggs [literally] and everthing else that gets in his way. We can see what's happening, but it is the way that Crumb gets from point A to point B that makes this film entertaining and worth watching.

ABOUT THE DVD:

If being able to add English Subtitles and select scenes are features, then this DVD has features. It is, however, an excellent transfer in "Widescreen Format" and an obvious improvement over the VHS offering.

POST SCRIPT:

This is one of Candy's better efforts and he is largely a one-man band. His impersonations are all quite funny and truly ridiculous, especially the one where he plays Hungarian executive, DuJour Dioche. Here he goes from having excessive chest hair to having a beard in the wink of an eye. The skits alone make this a must-see for all and a must-have for any Candy fans.

This film was released in February of 1989 and grossed $11 million. He managed to make another 18 films before he died of a heart attack in his sleep on location of the film "Wagons East", in Durango, Mexico on March 4, 1994. He was 43.

3 out of 5 stars kinda funny?!.......2005-06-09

i laughed a few times at john candy's offbeat humor it's not halarious but it will make you giggle and snicker at his goofy personality

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