Uncle Buck

Uncle Buck is a 1989 comedy-drama about a bachelor whose careless lifestyle is put to the test when his brother's family needs him. When Bob and Cindy Russell must leave their suburban home to attend to a family emergency, they have no one to turn to but Bob's brother Buck, whom the rest of the family regards as the black sheep. Buck, a kind-hearted but slovenly man who has never held down a conventional life, is left in charge of three children: fifteen-year-old Tia, who resents his presence, eight-year-old Miles, and six-year-old Maizy. His improvised approach to running the household quickly puts him at odds with Tia, with his long-suffering girlfriend Chanice, and with nearly everyone else he encounters, even as he gradually finds his footing as a guardian.

John Hughes directed and wrote the film, the seventh he directed and the one that followed She's Having a Baby in his filmography. John Candy leads the cast as Buck, with Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffmann, Macaulay Culkin, Amy Madigan and Elaine Bromka in supporting roles.

Made for a budget of 15 million dollars, the film took in 79 million worldwide, a strong return on its cost. On IMDb it holds a 7.1 rating from around 121,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.8 from a much smaller pool of voters. A critics' rating of 6 out of 10 from 28 reviews places it close to the audience scores rather than sharply apart from them.