Delirious is a romantic comedy film starring John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms and Raymond Burr. It was released in 1991, but it did not achieve commercial success at the box offices. Some speculate that John Candy was better suited to pure comedy roles rather than ones within the realm of the romantic comedy genre.
Despite these issues with the film, it has a cult following as a sleeper comedy classic, largely due to Candy's presence.
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Delirious is a romantic comedy film starring John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms and Raymond Burr. It was released in 1991, but it did not achieve commercial success at the box offices. Some speculate that John Candy was better suited to pure comedy roles rather than ones within the realm of the romantic comedy genre.
Despite these issues with the film, it has a cult following as a sleeper comedy classic, largely due to Candy's presence.
The film opens in a lush 1970s soap opera, complete with all the characters you'd expect to find, in a small upstate New York town of immense wealth (Ashford Falls) and ludicrous backstabbing... which breaks and we see that it is of course an acting set.
John Candy plays Jack Gable, a nearly out-of-work soap opera writer, whose product, like him, is now dated. His situation is only worsened by his despicable work associates who would sooner show him the door than work with him. Behind his back, they commission Arnie Federman, another writer, to...
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