- Film Review
- Reviewed By John Ferguson
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3 out of 5
This is the movie in which director John Hughes made a decision to leave the world of adolescence behind after films such as The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off and regress into childhood. Despite the fact that this was also the film that unleashed Macaulay Culkin on to the world at large, there is still much to enjoy. John Candy makes the most of his starring role as the loveable slob who is pressed into looking after his brother's children, and Hughes stages some neat comic set pieces. Only the sentimental moralising strikes a false note.
Plot Summary
Comedy starring John Candy and Macaulay Culkin. Buck Russell is a fun-loving bachelor without a care in the world. He's also the world's greatest slob. So when he has to look after his sharp young nephew and nieces while their parents are away, anything can - and will - happen.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Buck Russell
- John Candy
- Miles Russell
- Macaulay Culkin
- Tia Russell
- Jean Louisa Kelly
- Maizy Russell
- Gaby Hoffmann
- Chanice Kobolowski
- Amy Madigan
- Cindy Russell
- Elaine Bromka
- Bob Russell
- Garrett M Brown
- Marcie Dahlgren-Frost
- Laurie Metcalf
- Bug
- Jay Underwood
- E Roger Coswell
- Brian Tarantina
- Pooter the Clown
- Mike Starr
- Mrs Hogarth
- Suzanne Shepherd
Crew
- Director
- John Hughes
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