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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  Uncle Buck (1989)
An enjoyable comedy from the John Hughes production line that allows the greatly missed John Candy to shine as the titular uncle asked to look after his brother's kids for a week.
Some of the humour falls flat and some of it seems out of place - 'Do you know any dildo jokes?'- but on the whole this still stands up thirty years later.
Might this have been Macaulay Culkin's springboard to the role of Home Alone's Kevin McCallister? Both Miles in this and Kevin share similar traits. |
You're right, according to the Channel 5 Documentary on Home Alone over Christmas stated that this got Macaulay Culkin the role.