“John Candy: I Like Me” is the kind of glowing celebrity tribute you expect to get at their funeral, not all these years after their death (it opens with Dan Aykroyd’s eloquent eulogy for his friend and closes with the one Catherine O’Hara gave). But in the three decades since that big, lovable star’s passing, the affection his friends and family held for Candy has only deepened, to the extent that Bill Murray jokes, “I wish I had more bad things to say about him,” in the film’s first interview.
Kicking off the 50th-anniversary edition of the Toronto Film Festival (in the nearest big city to Candy’s native
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