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Uncle Buck is a 1989 film starring John Candy, Amy Madigan, Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffmann, and Macaulay Culkin. Jay Underwood and Laurie Metcalf co-star.

William Windom, Mike Starr, and Anna Chlumsky have cameo roles.

The movie was written and directed by John Hughes.

Plot

Cindy and Bob Russell are raising a family in an upper middle-class Chicago suburb. Their children are Miles (Culkin), Maisy (Hoffman), and Tia (Kelly). They had recently moved to Chicago from Indianapolis. This has caused much resentment on the part of Tia.

Late one night, Cindy and Bob receive a phone call from Indianapolis. Cindy's father had just suffered a heart attack. Cindy and Bob make plans to leave immediately. However the children had school, which made taking them along not possible.

Bob suggests his brother Buck (Candy), which Cindy rejects because she doesn't feel comfortable with him. Buck drinks, smokes, and is a general slob. Cindy also does not approve of his girlfriend. However it turns out that no one else is available to help them, so they have no choice to turn to Buck. Buck agrees to come out to their home and watch them. Buck doesn't even remember the names of the two younger children. After some confusion over what house Bob's family lives in, he finally gets to Bob and Cindy's home. The couple soon leave to go to her father.

Buck immediately hits it off with both Miles and Maisy. However Tia does not like Buck. When taking her to school, Buck meets Tia's boyfriend Bug. Buck sees right through him, Bug's only interest in Tia is for sex.

Over the next several days, Buck has to deal with a number of interesting situations involving his girlfriend, Miles, Maisy, and Tia. These situations included taking the kids to Buck's favorite bowling alley, Buck talking to a school principal over her concerns about Maisy, cooking gigantic pancakes, and dealing with a drunk clown. In these situations Buck is shown to be a man with a heart of gold who adores his brother's children.

At the end, Tia realizes that Buck is right in his theory about Bug, when she walks in on him with another girl. Although Tia walks off, Buck decides to get revenge on Bug for is crime, by drilling a hole through the door knob of his room, and tying him up and throwing him in his old car. In the final scenes, Tia forgets her earlier resentment to her mother, and both get along.

Trivia

John Hughes claims that the scene wherein Macaulay Culkin speaks with Amy Madigan through the mail slot in the front door was what gave him the idea for Home Alone
.

A short biography about Macaulay Culkin claims that, upon the film's release, a child asked Culkin if he really lived with actor John Candy, to which Culkin replied, "Yes I do. He's upstairs microwaving my socks right now."

This film has started a cult following, for its hilarious/oddball scenes, and its even funnier catch phrases.

Quotes

Bug - "Ever hear of a tune-up? Ha ha."
Buck - "Hee hee hee. Ever hear of a ritual killing?"
Bug - "I don't get it."
Buck - "You gnaw on Tia's face in public like that again and you'll be one. Hee hee hee hee!"

Buck - (speaking to the drunk clown who arrived in a Volkswagen modified to look like a mouse) "Get in your mouse, and get out of here."

(Buck is about to take the children bowling)
Maisy - "They have rent-a-shoes."
Tia - "And rent-a-foot-disease."

E. Roger Cogswell - (Speaking to Buck) "You gotta let somebody know where you are. I've been checking car trunks for your corpse."

Miles - "Holy smokes! He's cookin' our garbage!"

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