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Uncle Buck (1989)
 
Review
John Hughes had already demonstrated he
understood teenagers in hits such as
The Breakfast Club and
Ferris Bueller's Day
Off when in 1989 he joined forces with John Candy in
order to close the gap between the parent generation and their kids
in Uncle Buck. As a comedy, the film starts off well enough,
more thanks to Candy's persona than Hughes' script, but it soon
becomes all too apparent that Hughes is out to moralize, and not
with an ounce of subtlety. Stereotypical characters and situations
surround the supposedly complex Buck, for whom Hughes' film turns
out to be the perfect self-help program. The problem is just that
the contrived script doesn't really help Buck at all – he was
actually a better guy when we first met him than the affected,
movie-made guy he turns into. And his so-called funny antics along
the way wear off much too soon. Only Macaulay Culkin and Gaby
Hoffmann make this enjoyable. At least they're not trying to impose
their morals on us.
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