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The Toronto International Film Festival kicked off its 50th edition Thursday evening with the world premiere of \u201cJohn Candy: I Like Me<\/a>,\u201d a documentary that celebrates the life and career of the titular funnyman, who died of a heart attack in 1994 at the age of 43.<\/p>\n The opening night gala leaned in heavily on Canadian pride, which is not often the case at TIFF. But \u201cI Like Me,\u201d which Amazon is releasing on Oct. 10, offered plenty of regional flavor for the hometown crowd. Candy was a local hero, having grown up in Toronto before his breakout on Sctv<\/a>. He eventually became one of the most in-demand comedy stars of his generation, thanks to such films as \u201cStripes<\/a>,\u201d \u201cSplash<\/a>,\u201d \u201cSpaceballs<\/a>,\u201d \u201cPlanes, Trains and Automobiles<\/a>,\u201d \u201cUncle Buck<\/a>\u201d and \u201cCool Runnings<\/a>.\u201d Fellow Canadian Ryan Reynolds<\/a>, who hails from Vancouver and produced the doc, was in attendance, celebrating another one of the Great…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh, Canada! The Toronto International Film Festival kicked off its 50th edition Thursday evening with the world premiere of \u201cJohn Candy: I Like Me,\u201d a documentary that celebrates the life and career of the titular funnyman, who died of a heart attack in 1994 at the age of 43. The opening night gala leaned in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1998506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-1998505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ryan-Reynolds-\u2018John-Candy-I-Like-Me-Opens-Toronto-Film.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}