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1989 Certificate 15
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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. Read more

Starring John Candy, Amy Madigan, Jean Kelly, Macaulay Culkin
Director John Hughes
Genres Comedy

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Uncle Buck

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 Certificate 15
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

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    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.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • 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

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 6 out of 6 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    a great fun movie

    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

      • A customer from London
      • Posted 15 Sep 2003 11:24

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Classic Candy

    The chance to see a genius at work is not something that is commonplace. To see two at once is something to be cherished. The coupling of Candy and John Hughes produced a film of genuine heart amid a sea of sentimentality. Yes, the plot is simplistic. Yes, you can almost vomit on the sacharrine flavoured script, but all pales in the face of one of the best physical comedy performances since Chaplin.

    Candy positively revels in the role of Buck, a loveable, but flawed hero who comes to the rescue of his suburbanite brother during a family crisis. Cue all manner of visual gags and situational farce, that provides a stage for the last great comedy of the 80's. This film is amust see, not only for the director and star, but also for the amazingly assured performance of MacCauley Culkin. Oh, and the bit where the clown gets punched in the face is priceless.

      • Kenneth Day from Dundee
      • Posted 24 Mar 2005 12:39

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    • 07 Aug 2009

    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

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