When Chanice walks in on Buck and Marcy dancing, she ends their relationship. In retaliation for Buck's interference, Tia convinces Chanice that Buck is cheating on her with a neighbor, Marcy. When Buck meets Tia's obnoxious boyfriend, Bug, he warns her that Bug is only interested in her for sex and repeatedly thwarts her plans to sneak out with him. Over the next several days, Buck deals with several situations including taking the kids bowling, making huge pancakes for Miles' birthday, ejecting a drunken clown from the property, defending Maizy from the strict school assistant principal, and microwaving laundry because he cannot operate the washing machine. He settles into the Russell home and learns that he has been cropped out of photos and has otherwise been forgotten. His long-term girlfriend, Chanice, desires to get married and start a family, while Buck wants to retain his freedom and lack of responsibility Chanice warns him that he will eventually end up alone.īuck quickly befriends Miles and Maizy, whom he has never met, but Tia remains distant and rebellious. Buck lives in a small apartment in Chicago, is a heavy drinker and smoker, drives a run-down 1977 Mercury Marquis Brougham Coupe, and earns his living by betting on rigged horse races. Bob and Cindy unsuccessfully attempt to find a carer for the children, and are forced to turn to Bob's brother, Buck, whom Cindy believes to be unreliable and a bad influence.
Resentful about the life she was forced to leave behind in Indianapolis, Tia blames the heart attack on Cindy, leaving her relationship with her mother fraught. One night, the Russells receive a phone call informing them that Cindy's father has suffered a heart attack. The film was met with mixed reviews.īob and Cindy Russell have recently moved from Indianapolis with their three children, 15-year-old Tia, 8-year-old Miles, and 6-year-old Maizy, to the Chicago suburbs because of Bob's promotion. Uncle Buck was released in theatres on August 16, 1989, by Universal Pictures and grossed $79.2 million against a $15 million budget. The film tells the story of a bachelor who babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her younger brother and sister while the parents are away.
Uncle Buck is a 1989 American comedy film written and directed by John Hughes, and starring John Candy and Amy Madigan with supporting roles by Jean Louisa Kelly (in her film debut), Macaulay Culkin, Gaby Hoffmann, Garrett M.
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