An idle, good natured bachelor is left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. Unaccustomed to family life, Buck soon charms his younger relatives, but his style doesn't impress everyone, including his girlfriend. Read more
| Starring | John Candy, Amy Madigan, Jean Kelly, Macaulay Culkin |
|---|---|
| Director | John Hughes |
| Genres | Comedy |
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An idle, good natured bachelor is left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. Unaccustomed to family life, Buck soon charms his younger relatives, but his style doesn't impress everyone, including his girlfriend.
| Starring | John Candy, Amy Madigan, Jean Kelly, Macaulay Culkin, Gabby Hoffman |
|---|---|
| Director | John Hughes |
| Studio | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 35 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Eighties Greats |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 10 Apr 2003 Production year: 1989 |
| Format | DVD |
This is the movie in which director John Hughes made a decision to leave the world of adolescence behind after films such as The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off and regress back into childhood. Despite the fact that this was also the film that unleashed Macaulay Culkin on to the world at large, there is still much to enjoy. John Candy makes the most of his starring role as the lovable slob who is pressed into looking after his brother's children, and Hughes stages some neat comic set pieces. Only the sentimental moralising strikes a false note.
Tia (Kelly) is an unlovely specimen, her face fixed in a scowl of post-pubescent parent-hating, generated by mom's... read more on Time Out
This is one of my favourite films of all time. John is fantastic as the embarassing uncle Buck who comes to stay and look after the three kids while the parents have to visit the sick in-laws. He's not the first choice as he is incredibly clumsy, smelly and has a past of booze and women.
It turns out that no one else could have taken over the house as broken relationships are mended and by the end Buck has just about made up for all the mistakes and he brings the families back together again. ahhh
This is one of my favourite films of all time. John is fantastic as the embarassing uncle Buck who comes to stay and look after the three kids while the parents have to visit the sick in-laws. He's not the first choice as he is incredibly clumsy, smelly and has a past of booze and women.
It turns out that no one else could have taken over the house as broken relationships are mended and by the end Buck has just about made up for all the mistakes and he brings the families back together again. ahhh
Steve Martin, Macaulay Culkin and Matthew Broderick are leading the tributes to director John Hughes, who died on Thursday (06Aug09). Hughes passed away after suffering a heart attack while out walking in Manhattan, New York. The father of two stepped away from the limelight in the 1990s but stars from the big screen have offered their fond memories of the director, whose career spanned back to the 1980s. Broderick, who was directed by Hughes in the 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, was... Read more