Uncle Buck
Bachelor and all round slob, Buck, babysits his brother’s rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister.
- Director:John Hughes
- Genre:Comedy | Drama
Cast
John Candy : Buck Russell
Jean Louisa Kelly: Tia Russell
Gaby Hoffmann : Maizy Russell
Macaulay Culkin : Miles Russell
Amy Madigan : Chanice Kobolowski
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Bob Russell (Garrett M. Brown), his wife Cindy (Elaine Bromka), and their three kids, 8-year old Miles (Macaulay Culkin), 6-year old Maizy (Gaby Hoffman) and 15-year-old Tia (Jean Louisa Kelly), recently moved from Indianapolis to the Chicago area due to a job promotion. Tia resents her parents because she feels everyone was happy enough where they were already living and because she feels that they prefer their jobs to the family.
Bob and Cindy are in bed one night when Cindy’s aunt calls, telling them that Cindy’s father has had a heart attack. Bob and Cindy immediately make plans to go to leave for Indianapolis. Upon being told the news, Tia angrily states that “If my whole family moved away from me, I’d have a heart attack too”, and slams the door in her mother’s face.
Despite trying everyone they know, the parents are unable to find a sitter for the kids. In spite of Cindy’s objections, they are forced to settle on Bob’s brother Buck: an unemployed slacker who lives in a rundown apartment across from Wrigley Field, drives a dilapidated 1978 Mercury Marquis, smokes cigars, spends his free time in bowling alleys, and makes his living by placing large bets and cheating on fixed horse races.
Cindy and Bob leave for Indianapolis, leaving ‘Uncle Buck’ in charge. The loutish but well-meaning and sensitive Buck does the best he can; Miles and Maizy quickly bond with and adore him, but he repeatedly butts heads with the rebellious Tia. He is also dealing with constant pressure of commitment from Chanice Kobolowski (Amy Madigan), his girlfriend for the past eight years.
Buck meets Tia’s boyfriend, Bug (Jay Underwood), and instantly realizes that he is clearly only interested in sex with her. When Buck scares Bug away from her with a hatchet he claimed he wanted to show him (Buck proclaims to be so proficient with the weapon he’s been known to “circumcise a gnat”, saying “Bug…gnat…is there a similarity here? Oh, I think there is.”), an infuriated Tia gets revenge by making Chanice think that Buck is flirting with the Russells’ neighbor, Marcie Dahlgren-Frost (Laurie Metcalf). Chanice leaves Buck. Read more
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