Iwas sitting in the passenger seat of my friend George’s car as we drove down Highway 11 toward Bracebridge on Oct. 3, 2023, past trees beginning their autumnal transition. We had just finished interviewing some dear family friends at their beautiful cottage on Skeleton Lake — the first of many for a feature-length documentary about my dad, John Candy .

At the time, the project was untitled. The only name floating around was “I Like Me,” and I wasn’t sure if it felt right. Did my dad like himself the way his character, the affable Del Griffith from “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” liked himself? There was so much I still didn’t know, but one thing was already clear: I was at the beginning of a long, emotional journey; a large-scale deep dive into my dad’s life, career and legacy.

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