When family has an unexpected health problem (like a heart attack) in the middle of the night, and you need to check on them, you may need family to help out. You can't just leave the kids with neighbors, or call someone to watch them. Enter Uncle Buck.
Buck Russell (John Candy) is the relative that no one likes to admit they have, and he just happens to be the one who might happen to come through when you need someone the most. Sure, he's a bit rough around the edges, but no one can make pancakes like Uncle Buck.
The younger kids take to him immediately (including a young Macaulay Culkin), but the teenage daughter has a bit more trouble adapting to her uncle's ways, and repeatedly insists on testing his authority.
Naturally, no one can resist the charms of Uncle Buck, and he shows everyone how charming he can be. First the young ones come to know him and love him, and he creates a snow shovel-sized pancake for a birthday, then he stands up for them in front of the principal.
But it takes a bit longer before the teenage daughter will come around, and it takes even longer still before he can convince his girlfriend that he's trying to do his best, and not heading to the track to bet on the horses, but eventually they all come around to see things his way.
Rated PG for adult language and some situations that are probably a bit too much for younger kids, it's an entertaining movie that won't make you think too hard.
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