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| John Candy | ... | Sheriff Bud Boomer | |
| Alan Alda | ... | President of the United States | |
| Rhea Perlman | ... | Honey | |
| Kevin Pollak | ... | Stu Smiley | |
| Rip Torn | ... | General Dick Panzer | |
| Kevin J. O'Connor | ... | Roy Boy | |
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The US economy is in a rut, and so is the president's approval rating. What we need is a good war, but the Russians aren't interested. Hey -- how about that big polite country to the north? Niagara Falls Sheriff Bud B. Boomer takes this all a bit too seriously, though. Written by Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>
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...or a facsimile thereof, minus the black humor, add stupid jokes about Canadians and a happy ending, and you've got Canadian Bacon. Seduced yet? Hey, I liked Strangelove the first time around. The scene of the gluttonous Russian officials and the war-room scenes are lifted right out of the former. Canadian Bacon makes all the obvious Canadian/American jokes (Canadians are naive country cousins, Americans are violent, Russians are coarse, etc). Derivative and tiresome.