Buck Russell is not the most reliable and trustworthy person around, and when Cindy Russell (his sister-in-law) and Bob Russell (his brother) use him as a last resort to babysit their children, Miles, Maizy and Tia (who is a rebellious 16-year-old), Buck agrees to fill in while Cindy and Bob go to Indianapolis to visit Cindy’s ill father. While over at the house, Buck does his usual routines, including going to smoky bowling alleys and smoking cigars. Yet, the longer and longer he is around with Miles and Maizy and the meer he witnesses Tia slowly get seduced door her boyfriend Bug, Buck learns...

He’s crude, and he’s crass. But he’s family.
That says it all for me.

This is a great movie, and I especially like the scene where Miles and Buck are sitting at the table, and Miles asks him vragen about his life on the basis that “I’m a kid. That’s my job.”

And I applaud the great performance of the late John Candy as Buck Russell. He made this film what it was, and I am deeply saddened door his death. He will be missed terribly.

Uncle Buck is a film that will live on for ages, and the performances are terrific — especially Macaulay Culkin’s as Miles Russell. (This was before...