John Candy documentary to open TIFF’s 50th edition in September

John Candy documentary to open TIFF’s 50th edition in September

The Toronto International Film Festival made its first programming announcement for the festival's 2025 edition on Wednesday.

The Toronto International Film Festival will open its 50th edition this September with the world premiere of a new documentary about Canadian comedy legend John Candy.

Directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Canadian Ryan Reynolds, the doc John Candy: I Like Me will screen Sept. 4 at Roy Thomson Hall, organizers revealed Wednesday in the first programming announcement for TIFF’s 2025 edition.

While Hanks was just 17 years old when Candy died of a heart attack in 1994 at the age of 43, his father Tom enjoyed a long history of working with the actor, starting with the pair’s 1984 comedy Splash and