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Uncle Buck (Widescreen)

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Director: John Hughes
Format: Color
Studio: Universal Studios
Video Release Date: January 19, 1999

Cast:

John Candy ... Buck Russell
Jean Louisa Kelly ... Tia Russell
Gaby Hoffmann ... Maisy Russell
Macaulay Culkin ... Miles Russell
Amy Madigan ... Chanice Kobolowski
Elaine Bromka ... Cindy Russell
Garrett M. Brown ... Bob Russell
Laurie Metcalf ... Marcie Dahlgren-Frost
Jay Underwood ... Bug
Brian Tarantina ... E. Roger Coswell
Mike Starr ... Pooter-the-Clown
Suzanne Shepherd ... Mrs. Hogarth
William Windom ... Mr. Hatfield
Dennis Cockrum ... Pal
Joel Robinson ... Miles' Friend #1
Colin Baumgartner ... Miles' Friend #2
Erik Whipple ... Miles' Friend #3
Mark Rosenthal ... Party Boy #1
Doug von Nessen ... Party Boy #2
Wayne Kneeland ... Party Boy #3
Gigi Casler ... Party Girl in Bedroom
LaVerne Anderson ... Party Girl #1
Gina Doctor ... Party Girl #2
Rachel Thompson Perrine ... Party Girl #3
Ron Payne ... Maisy's Teacher

Jane Vickerilla ... Teacher #1
Kyle Lewis Eastman ... School Child
Dana Taylor ... School Child
Jennifer Kane ... School Child
Christen Loftis ... School Child
Genae Affrunti ... School Child
Anna Chlumsky ... School Child
Betsy Bottando ... Woman in Car
Julia Morgan ... Additional Voices
Granville Ames ... Additional Voices
Ramey Ellis ... Additional Voices
Leigh French ... Additional Voices
Patricia Arquette ... Additional Voices
Laura Jacoby ... Additional Voices

Devon Odessa ... Additional Voices
Arnold F. Turner ... Additional Voices
Garin Bouble ... Additional Voices
Tim Hoskins ... Additional Voices
Julie Payne ... Additional Voices
Jack Blessing ... Additional Voices
Todd Larson ... Additional Voices
Michael Berkowitz ... Student
Ryan Todd ... School Child

The Russell's have to go to Indianapolis because Cindy's (Elaine Bromka) father has had a heart attack. They can't find anyone to watch their three children while they are gone except batchelor uncle Buck (John Candy), Bob's brother (Garrett M. Brown). The little kid's, Maisy and Miles (Gaby Hoffman and Macaulay Culkin) are no great problem, with the exception of the teenage girl, Tia, (Jean Louisa Kelly), who is a pouting, angry, snotty, rebellious little jerk. She treats her mother disrespectfully, is self-centered, and carries that attitude on to Buck, who is trying to do the right things by the kids, In other words, she is playing the part of an ordinary 15-year-old who has never been properly disciplined by her parents.

This was a great movie. I particularly enjoyed the parts where Buck was threatening Tia's boyfriend, Bug (Jay Underwood), who has dishonorable designs on the girl. Buck's threatening attitude was delicious, and my appreciation no doubt reflects my own dislike of teenaged boys, the same feelings as any man who has had teenaged daughters to raise. Namely: that they should all be imprisoned until they are at least 40-years-old and rendered eunuchs, and the girls' fathers need to be well armed at all times with shotguns, and the boys in question should be left with absolutely no doubt as to the fathers' willingness--even eagerness--to use them with the intent to emasculate the culprits who dare to even think about touching their daughter.

Joseph (Joe) Pierre

author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books

When I first saw this movie on TV I knew I was going to like this even before I watched it.My favorite part in the movie is Macaulay Culkin who plays Miles Russell asks Buck those personal questions to him that part was just too Cute!!!Macaulay Culkin was such a very Cute Kid in this movie.And I also like John Candy,too.I feel so bad that he's dead now.This movie is the Best,I gotta get This Movie!!!!!!

John Candy has his BEST performance EVER in this film by John Hughes. "Uncle" Buck Russell (Candy) is a perpetual screw-up who HAS to get his act together enough to watch over his older brother's three kids & dog, Tia, Miles, Maisy and puppy, Parsey since his sister-in-law's father had a heart attack.

The cast includes Mac Culkin as Miles, Gaby Hoffman as Maisy, Amy Madigan as Buck's girlfriend, Chanice Kobolowski, & Laurie Metcalf (Roseanne's sister, Jackie) as the crazy neighbor lady, Marcie Dahlgren-Frost. Also billed in small parts are Anna Chlumsky (My Girl), Patricia Arquette, and Devon Odessa (My So-Called Life).

This film is totally hilarious but also has those wonderful John Candy touching/sentimental moments.

A wonderful family film that can be watched over and over again!

Happy Watching!

The late great John Candy performs superbly in another hit film of his,UNCLE BUCK. This film reunites Candy with director John Hughes who earlier directed Candy and Steve Martin in PLANES,TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES. Candy,as the title character,sub-lives in his brother's family's home while the brother and his wife getaway for a while. This film marks the debut of MacCaulay Culkin who would later become famous for his starring role in HOME ALONE and HOME ALONE 2. Amy Madigan plays Candy's girlfriend who later catches him dancing with another woman,thus ending her relationship with Buck. She later agrees to help Buck get his nieces and nephews out of their resprective distresses. Candy would have a cameo in HOME ALONE,another John Hughes film.

John Candy was a one of a kind. A comedian that appealed to bith men and women, yet he steered clear of all Hollywood gossip and wrong-doings. He's very much missed. Uncle Buck is one of his finest performances, right along side Planes, Trains and Automobiles, and Who's Harry Crumb.

The plot is simple enough, the black sheep goof of the family (Candy) is called upon as a last resort to babysit his brother's kids. His sister-in -law's father had a heart attack. Buck moves in and suburban life will never be the same. The two younger children love him at first sight. And who wouldn't when he makes a pancake the size of a kitchen table? The oldest, teenage daughter Tia however has her own agenda.

She's a 16 year old girl with the usual hangups, trying to fit in, rebellion, etc. Her and Buck crash heads, but after she learns her lesson the hard way. Everything gets all lovey-dovey.

Great cameo too by the neighbor (the woman who played Rosanne's sister on her show, her name escapes me right now). And if you're a drunken clown, you might as well get back in your mouse and go home.

In this movie we see a slightly different side of the acting of the great John Candy. Asked to watch his brother's children during a crisis, Uncle Buck (John Candy) is thrown into a situation that isn't all fun and games.
The younger children adore him, while the teenage niece is determined to do all she can to destroy this man she feels is standing in the way of her 'good' times. Add with that a girlfriend who is waiting for Uncle Buck to wed her and you have quite a time.
Don't worry, John does not disappoint his fans, you will still get many giggles out of this movie, but you will also see Uncle Buck turning life around for those who are in his charge.
This was a very good movie and I believe you will enjoy it.

Uncle Buck is not your everyday sort of hero. He doesn't look like a hero, and he doesn't act much like a hero. But in his own strange, bizarre way, he comes into the life of his brother's family and fixes all the problems, just like a hero would.

He's really loveable, even in all his rudeness.

This is a really funny movie. We all love it, from the younger kids to the adults in the family.

What do you say about John Candy, other than he's had some of the most interesting roles in recent times, and Uncle Buck is no exception.

No one likes this guy, and he's recruited to watch his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. Candy plays it to the hilt, as this fun-loving Uncle, although his carefree style doesn't impress everybody, including his teenage niece, who tries to get him in trouble, to his impatient girlfriend, who really wants him to get married to her.

His unorthodox ways are charming, to say the least, and when he sets out on a mission, you can only guess what the end results will be - strange, but sure, in the Uncle Buck way.

If you like John Candy, this has to be on of his best. And I recommend it for the laughs.

After over 10 years, I still never get tired of watching this movie and this is one of the few movies that me and my family talk about, the movie is about Cindy's aunt calling her in the middle of the night saying that her father suffered a heart attack so they need to leave for an emergency, but there's a problem, they don't have anybody to watch the kids, Cindy's husband Bob suggested Marcie who lives across the street but Cindy refused and decides that the Nevilles should take care of the kids, but the Nevilles weren't available then they decide to get Bob's brother Buck (the titled character and Cindy actually refused cause she didn't like Buck's carefree lifestyle of partying and gambling).
Then Uncle Buck gets woken up by the phone call and Bob tells Buck that they need somebody to watch the kids then Buck is honored to do so, there's a hilarious scene when Uncle Buck knocks on their door but it turns out to be the house across the street and the neighbor gets woken up, the parents leave is Uncle Buck checks out the antique plates and accidentally drops one but it didn't break but he bangs it on the piano but it breaks!!

There's a hilarious scene when Uncle Buck was cooking breakfast and singing 'Tweedle Dee' and his rebelious teenage niece Tia shows up in a bad mood and she despises Uncle Buck but Miles and Maizy (Tia's younger brother and sister) likes him and he takes the kids to school and the car backfires, later on there's a hilarious scene when Uncle Buck picks up Tia, Tia is hanging out with her womanizing boyfriend Bug and the car again backfires, Bug askes Uncle Buck 'You ever hear of a tune-up, hee hee hee' Buck: 'Hee Hee Hee, you ever hear of a ritual killing, hee hee hee' Bug: 'I don't get it' Buck: 'You ever gnaw on her face like that again and you'll be one, hee hee hee' and takes off with the door open with Bug nearby.

There's another classic scene during Miles's birthday when Uncle Buck makes them a giant pancake and the children's mother orders a clown to show up at Mile's birthday party but the clown shows up dead drunk and Uncle Buck wasn't happy about it and tells him to leave but the clown cusses at Uncle Buck and he punches the clown in the nose.

Then Uncle Buck goes out and picks up Tia and tries to scare Bug with an ax is another scene, 'Wait a minute, Bug, Gnat, is there a similararity going on around here, whoo I guess there is'.

Then Uncle Buck goes to Maizy's conference (which was scheduled with the mother) and the assistant principal has a huge wart on her nose and she introduces her, Buck: Buck's Wart Russell, not the wart, I'm the wart and the assistant principal claims that she sees a bad egg when she looks at Maizy and Uncle Buck gets onto her by telling her that she's so mean to everybody and gets onto to her and she feels hurt by it, another classic moment.

Later on that night, Uncle Buck's girlfriend Chanice calls and askes for Buck but Tia lied to Chanice by telling her that Uncle Buck was cheating on her then the next morning, Marcie shows up at the rescidence wanting to dance with Uncle Buck then Chanice shows up and she thinks that Uncle Buck is cheating on her and cusses him out.

Then Uncle Buck announces that he's going to the racetrack the following day but ends up not going cause Tia was going to Bug's party but Uncle Buck refused to let Tia go to it so he needed to find her, at Bug's house Uncle Buck walks on the stairs with a bunch of people around it and only to find that the girl that was in Bug's room wasn't Tia then Uncle Buck finds Tia all heartbroken and she apologizes Uncle Buck for all the pain she put him through and he forgives her and Tia askes Uncle Buck if he did anything to Bug, sure enough he put Bug inside the trunk and Uncle Buck askes Bug to apologize and Bug cusses at Uncle Buck and he tells Bug that he is an amatuer dentist and they leave Bug stranded and again, he cusses at Bug and he got what was coming to him, another classic scene and to bad that network television had to edit out that part.

Then Tia now respects Uncle Buck and Chanice gave Uncle Buck another chance cause Tia confessed to what she told Chanice and Mom and Dad came home and Cindy's father survived the heart attack and they became a better family from that point on.

I think that Uncle Buck is one of the best comedies of all time and it's especially one of John Candy's best performances and my only gripe about this movie is the constant swearing (for a PG movie, it should've been PG-13 and some of the sexual content like that one scene they showed inside the school when a guy grabs a girl's buttocks or when Bug was down on that other girl) but overall it's a classic movie and it's better than half of the comedies that's around today.

This is one of my personal favorites; and John Candy was a terrific comedian. There are so many funny scenes in this movie, every other minute you're sure to be laughing. From the moment he arrives, the intro to the kids, handling drunk clowns, bitter school officials, preying punks descending upon his oldest niece, LARGE birthday breakfast for Culkin's character, et al...this is just a heartwarming, family fun flick to view. I've seen this countless times; and it never grows dull. Was a success at the box office; as one sees this for their 1st time, they'll know why. Highly recommended, and sad that John Candy passed away too young, and we being robbed of this man's fine talent.