Uncle Buck
The movie poster for Uncle Buck.
Directed by	John Hughes
Produced by	John Hughes Tom Jacobson
Written by	John Hughes
Starring	John Candy Jean Louisa Kelly Macaulay Culkin
Music by	Ira Newborn
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	August 16, 1989
Running time	100 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$15,000,000 (estimated)
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Uncle Buck is a 1989 comedy-drama starring John Candy, Amy Madigan, Gary Sinclair, Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffmann. It co-stars Macaulay Culkin. Jay Underwood and Laurie Metcalf, and William Windom, Mike Starr, and Anna Chlumsky have cameo roles. The movie was written and directed by John Hughes, and received a PG rating from the MPAA. Image File history File links Uncle-buck. ... John Hughes, Jr. ... John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. ... Jean Louisa Kelly (born on March 9, 1972 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA) is an American actress and singer. ... Macaulay Carson Culkin (born August 26, 1980) is an American actor. ... Ira Newborn (1949- ) is an American musician and composer, best known for his work composing motion picture soundtracks. ... Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... // Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia for $20 million. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. ... Amy Madigan (born 11 September 1950) is an American actress who is known for her role as Annie Kinsella in the 1989 film Field of Dreams. ... Jean Louisa Kelly (born on March 9, 1972 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA) is an American actress and singer. ... Gabrielle Mary Hoffmann (born January 8, 1982 in NYC, USA) is an American actress. ... Macaulay Carson Culkin (born August 26, 1980) is an American actor. ... Jay Underwood (born 1 October 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) is an American actor. ... Lauren Laurie Ophelia Metcalf (born June 16, 1955) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress. ... William Windom playing the role of Dr. Seth Hazlitt on the television series Murder, She Wrote William Windom, (born September 28, 1923, New York, New York), great-grandson of U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, of the same name, is an American actor, best known for his work on television... Mike Starr (born Michael William Salvatore July 29, 1950 in Queens, New York) is an Italian-American actor. ... Anna Chlumsky (born December 3, 1980) is an American actress. ... John Hughes, Jr. ... The MPAA film rating system is a system used in the United States and territories and instituted by the Motion Picture Association of America to rate a movie based on its content. ... The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), originally called the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association of America, is a non-profit trade association based in the United States which was formed to advance the interests of movie studios. ...

Plot

Cindy and Bob Russell are raising a family in an upper middle-class Chicago suburb. Their children are Miles (Culkin), Maizy (Hoffman), and Tia (Kelly). They had recently moved to Chicago from Indianapolis. The move caused Tia to become very upset. Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... Nickname: Location in the state of Indiana Coordinates: , County Marion Founded 1821 Government  - Mayor Bart Peterson (D) Area  - City  372 sq mi (963. ...

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 they ask his brother Buck (Candy) to watch the kids, 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 (Madigan). However it turns out that no one else is available to help them, so they have no choice but 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 Maizy. 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, Maizy, and Tia. These situations included taking the kids to Buck's favorite bowling alley, Buck talking to a school principal over her concerns about Maizy, 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.

Towards the end of the movie, Tia sneaks away with Bug to a party. Thinking that Bug is taking advantage of her in a bedroom at the party, Buck drills a hole through the door knob of his room, walking in on Bug with another girl. Realizing that Tia has already left using her own, now better judgement, Buck decides to tie him up and throws him in his old car only to let Bug out later to apologize to Tia and hit him with a golfball as he flees.

Closing Shot

The closing shot showing John Candy wave goodbye.

The final shot in this film is of actor John Candy waving goodbye to his niece. This scene is regarded by many fans as John Candy's most memorable screen capture. Fans like to believe that the image is actor John Candy waving goodbye as he would pass away only five years later of a heart attack while filming the comedy Wagons East! in 1994. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. ... John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. ... John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. ... Wagons East! is a 1994 Western comedy film directed by Peter Markle and starring John Candy and Richard Lewis. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ...

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."
• For the scene in which Miles rapidly interrogates Buck about the fine details of his life, John Candy had the prompter set up on his back so that Macaulay Culkin could maintain the scene's breakneck pace.
• This movie is still Macaulay Culkin's highest grossing film outside of the Home Alone series.
• This film was shot almost entirely on the campus of New Trier West High School in Northfield, Illinois. The house set was constructed in the gymnasium.
• The piano music at the beginning of the film is by Hugh Harris, it is taken from his 1989 song Rhythm of Life, the full song is played at the end of the film.
• Towards the end of the film when Buck gets a golf club and ball from the trunk of the car, places it on the grass to fire a shot at the fleeing Bug, the "club swing" shot was filmed on the grassy school bus turn around on the NTW school campus, but Bug fleeing shot was filmed in the parking lot of a small grocery store in Glencoe, IL, where other segments of the movie were filmed but never used in the final version. These two perspectives of the same scene were more than 10 miles apart.
• On the back of the DVD cover for the 1998 DVD release, Jean Louisa Kelly was referred to as "Jean Kelly" (not to be confused with the actor, Gene Kelly), although Jean Louisa Kelly's given name is a two-word name.

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Cast

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Famous Quotations

• Teacher: "Does anyone have a special story to share with the class?"
• Maizy: "My uncle washed my socks in the washing machine and the dog threw up for about an hour."
• Teacher: "Honest?"
• Maizy: "Yes"
• Teacher: "Why was your uncle drying your socks in the microwave?"
• Maizy: "Because he can't get the god damn washing machine to work."
• Teacher: "Blasphemer!"

• Buck (to Principal): "I don't have a college degree. I don't even have a job. But I know a good kid when I see one. Because there all good kids. Until dried-out brain died skaggs like you, drag them down and convince them they're no good."

• Buck (to Principal): "If you so much as scowl at my niece or any other kid in this school and I hear about it, and I coming after you. (Buck gets up from chair) Take this quarter. (throws the quarter on the desk) Go downtown and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face!"

The TV Show

In 1990, a television show named Uncle Buck was broadcast on CBS. It starred Kevin Meaney as Buck, a slob who drinks and smokes. When his brother and sister-and-law die in an automobile accident, Buck is named as the guardian of Tia, Miles, and Maizy. The show was not well received by either critics or the viewing public, and it was quickly cancelled. Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... CBS Broadcasting, Inc. ... Kevin Meaney is an American comedian and voice actor. ...

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