A John Candy documentary gives Toronto film fest a tender and appropriately Canadian opening night

TORONTO (AP) — The documentary “John Candy: I Like Me,” directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds, is a tribute not just to Candy the actor, but Candy, the man. On Thursday night, it premieres as the opening night film of the Toronto International Film Festival. For a beloved Canadian icon like Candy, whose nickname was “Johnny Toronto,” the setting could hardly be more fitting. To reference Candy’s cameo in “The Blues Brothers,” it’s an occasion that calls for orange whips, all around. The movie is a kind of cinematic eulogy for Candy, who died of heart failure at the age of 43 in 1994. But Candy might be even more popular three decades after his death.

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