Ep121 – Do You Want Uncle Buck To Come Over?

Episode art showing the movie poster for Uncle Buck the 121st episode of the Dodge Movie Podcast.

He’s crude. He’s crass. He’s family.

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Uncle Buck

Uncle Buck is a John Hughes film featured Macaulay Culkin after the Home Alone hit. It came out in 1989 and stars John Candy, the afore mentioned Culkin, a very young Gabby Hoffman, Jean Louisa Kelly, Amy Madigan and Laurie Metcalf. It is about an unkept uncle who comes to take care of his nieces and nephew. While his techniques are questionable, Buck ends up having the answers in the end.

Timecodes

  • 00:00 – Introduction
  • :17 – The Film stats
  • 6:21 – The Pickup Line
  • 10:21 We obsess over condiment lids
  • 16:29 – Breakfast birthday party
  • 19:51 – Laurie Metcalf as a cougar
  • 23:11 – 1989 teeth vs. 2023 teeth
  • 25:03 – Head Trauma
  • 26:41 – Smoochie, Smoochie, Smoochie
  • 27:10 – Driving Review
  • 29:31 – To the Numbers

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Episode Transcript

Brennan 0:00
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Christi Dodge 0:17
Welcome back, everybody to the Dodge Movie Podcast. This is episode 121. We are going to be talking about the 1989 Uncle Buck. We watch this for free with a seven day trial to AMC plus. So if you’re willing to do that just set your iCal are in six days cancel AMC, and they played commercials. Yes, though. It’s still high commercials.

The director is John Hughes, who we know from Planes, Trains and Automobiles in 87 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in 86 and The Breakfast Club in 85. And if you don’t know him from other things, get a life. He also wrote it It stars John Candy Macaulay Culkin, Jean Louisa Kelly, I believe she was the Yeah, she’s the oldest Yeah, Gabby Hoffman, who I absolutely love played Maisie is a sweet little girl. Amy Madigan was cloud. Oh, stupid autocorrect. Elaine Brock, was Cindy Garrett Brown was Bob Laurie Metcalf. Yeah, Marcy. Were big Laurie Metcalf.

Mike Dodge 1:41
This is I think the first time I ever saw Laurie Metcalf and I didn’t remember until I saw her name in the in the credit.

Christi Dodge 1:48
I know. I was very excited to see her in this. The DP is RAF de Bodie and he did dress to kill in 80 and Don Juan DeMarco in 94 and then The Accused in 88 Yeah, let’s just keep Yeah, this is a Universal Pictures the synopsis for this film is, “Bachelor and all around slob Buck babysits his brother’s rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister.” So pretty basic synopsis. I got one No, I have three taglines. Lame. I’m okay. This one is in all caps, but I’m not going to yell. Oh, no. It’s dot dot dot.

Mike Dodge 2:29
That’s not good.

Christi Dodge 2:30
Mind you this came out after home alone. Getting rid of intruders was tough, but here’s a menace that’s coming to stay. So it’s interesting that they’re calling back another film. I was gonna say franchise but at this point, it was just the film. But they’re basically using Macaulay Culkin iconography, right to promote this film, which , Dustin did say that taglines are marketing. I think this is the winner. “He’s crude. He’s crass. He’s family.”

Mike Dodge 3:02
Oh, that’s a good one.

Christi Dodge 3:04
Yeah, that’s a good one. I want to touch on one thing, this is the highest grossing film outside of the home alone franchises to feature Macaulay Culkin, so I think, you know, everyone’s so responded to his character in home alone that this one was like you’ve got John Candy and now this new kind of wunderkind, Macaulay Culkin and and then it’s all written and directed and produced by John Hughes. How could this go wrong?

Yeah, so I think that’s why it did well, but it’s interesting because you gave me some trivia or not so much trivia but you had done some reading in John Candy and I don’t know if we just you know, because of social media wasn’t a thing or were we still in the Hollywood system where the studio’s protected the private lives, but I did not realize that his like his addictions to drugs and heavy drinking and like even said he was a heavy smoker. And I was almost like, stunned by hearing all of that information, because I didn’t feel like like that wasn’t in People magazine. I was really sad to me. He just seemed like a sweet guy.

Mike Dodge 4:19
Well, I think he was a sweet guy, too. Yes, he was so tortured, and maybe a bit of an addict.

Christi Dodge 4:25
Yeah. So apparently one night during filming, he went to a bar with the music supervisor. And he spent most of the night there meeting people and the next day, John Hughes got a call or heard a caller on the radio show who is excitedly describing his evening with John Candy. Hughes was so upset with him. Despite his assertion that Buck was supposed to appear disheveled Hughes canceled, which we know how expensive this is, yeah, canceled his scenes for the day and told him to get him himself together and get some sleep.

Mike Dodge 5:02
So my first thought when I read that was, this is kind of like if, let’s say you had a shot in the park, and oh, it’s raining today. So the location manager and the UPM are now scrambling to try to like, okay, what are we going to do this schedule? Okay, we’ll move this thing forward. Well, can we get the Jim today? That to me, like they Hughes, kind of punished them? Yeah, more than cuz I’m sure John Candy was like, No, I can work right. And so he is probably just probably hurt. But I just think of the rest of the crew that we’re doing what boss? Wait, the guy he’s right over there. Let’s just get everything set up. Let’s film right like, that was like.

Christi Dodge 5:46
I want somebody to do the documentary like they’ve done with like, I’m thinking of George Carlin. And then there’s the Steven Spielberg one where they go and talk to all the people that worked. I want a John Hughes documentary. Like where we get like, was he like, was him just was this him just throwing around his weight? Was this him like really saying, we’re working with children? You must you know, show up like, was he punishing John Candy was John Candy that out of it.

Mike Dodge 6:17
Intervention? Was he trying to wake him up? Yeah, you want to know like,

Christi Dodge 6:21
of course. Okay, kick us off with the pickup line for this film.

Mike Dodge 6:25
Get your bag off the table people eat there that’s Tia yelling at Macaulay Caulkins character.

Christi Dodge 6:32
Yes, we’re seeing the kids as they come in.

Mike Dodge 6:34
So this establishes that Tia the oldest sister is the de-facto mom. Right? And having known an 18 year old girl who was the de facto mom for a six year old little brother. Yeah, I can tell you it’s not a lot of fun. It really shouldn’t happen. So they establish that as well. They’re kind of you know, they’re they have a contentious relationship. But as you would. I think Macaulay is supposed to be like eight or something. And so yeah, he’s kind of lippy and, and all that. So I thought that was adjacent to my theory.

Christi Dodge 7:12
Is he older than Maisie?

Mike Dodge 7:15
I believe Miles Yeah, is older than Maisie. So that’s how I interpreted it.

Christi Dodge 7:19
Miles, Maisie, and Tia. For cinematography. I enjoyed the montage because of having been a parent sleeping with children. The montage of John Candy trying to sleep with the younger two and the dog.

Mike Dodge 7:34
And you know,what I really liked about that is when the girl is saying she wants to sleep with him. I loved that dialogue, because as an adult male that is kind of creepy. No, that’s like, no, no, no, no, no, that’s not

Christi Dodge 7:50
She’s not a toddler. But the child wins because there just was no because for them, it’s just comfort.

Mike Dodge 7:56
Right? Like, and, and then she kicks him off the bed and it’s great. And then they all end up on the floor. So I thought that was funny.

Christi Dodge 8:04
But I like how halfway through the night. Like, I think they were on the floor. But then they get they all get back in bed.

Mike Dodge 8:10
And so if you notice when he was sleeping on the floor, he’d gone and got a bath towel. The lay down just as some amount of padding on the carpet. Right? It was so well done.

Christi Dodge 8:21
Yeah, I liked that.

Mike Dodge 8:22
There’s also a housework montage that I enjoyed of him doing a bunch of stuff around the house. Yes. And which is good because it shows us as a character, his growth because at the beginning of the film, he’s supposedly this kind of slob, but I will be honest, I don’t really think they established that very much. We have one shot of his apartment. And it doesn’t look that bad.

Christi Dodge 8:45
Oh my god no his I made a note his apartment. It’s it’s under set Bucks apartment with all the cub gear and how messy it is. And then the closet. His apartment was atrocious. Do you remember the closet scene? It’s in the trailer. He goes in to get something and it’s like Fibber McGee, everything falls on him.

Mike Dodge 9:04
Well, we do have the classic bowling balls stored on an on a high shelf.

Christi Dodge 9:10
Because who does that? Yeah. Oh, you put it on the floor of the closet?

Mike Dodge 9:14
Yes. Unless you set up that gag.

Christi Dodge 9:18
Yeah, yeah. No, his apartment was addressed. Well, I think in a way like this is so funny. You guys. This is what I live with. Very, very early on in the film. In fact, I believe it’s the scene where he caught he comes to the home. So his brother’s home. So they’re really this can’t be attributed to Buck. But Mike stops the film. To point out that on the table, there’s about four, maybe five condiments like ketchup hot sauce, maybe some syrup.

I don’t know there was some things and every single bottle the lid is off and it’s on the table and he says Oh, wait, why? Why? And I think it was to show because later they show that same table. And it’s almost like it’s tidy with just like a nice little bowl of oranges. Yeah, middle. And so I think but they didn’t chronologically put it in there correctly. Because the all of that should have happened after but came not the day but came.

Mike Dodge 10:21
Well, I dothink the replacement of the bowl of oranges is after the

Christi Dodge 10:26
but I’m saying the lids off. It’s the night that Buck comes. So that means the family did that not Buck.

Mike Dodge 10:32
yeh. So it’s to the listeners, I stand by this.

Christi Dodge 10:37
We spend so much time on these little things.

Mike Dodge 10:39
I stand by that assessment because it was so odd because I didn’t know anybody who stored their condiments on the table, particularly with the lids off of them.

Christi Dodge 10:48
I don’t think it’s that abnormal to have, like, like, especially hot sauce. People who use hot sauce, probably don’t bother putting it away because they use it on everything right. But I think what was over the top and one lid, okay, but all four lids of the condiments, that was bizarre, and we’ve spent so much time on this.

Mike Dodge 11:08
Right? So I just want to finish this off by saying, wherever the production designer was for this film, I want you to call me because we needed the answer. But now that we’ve gotten into sets, I do have there’s another thing that that bumped me that I didn’t pause to make you listen to but I’m going to now is the front door to that house has not one but two of the little people’s or you can look at to see if it’s the UPS guy or a burglar. Right. So you know why two

Christi Dodge 11:39
So that you can just look at it like binocular. No, I don’t I don’t know.

Mike Dodge 11:42
I love I love your binoculars. Yeah, it’s like both look both both. But yeah, is is one, like more powerful. So you can see the mailbox and wires wide angle. The wife didn’t know how to close one eye. Okay, that’s awesome. I love those ideas. Let’s go with

Christi Dodge 12:00
The one thing it was kind of weird. And I don’t know if this was like a cut that was made for TV, maybe. But there were moments where it would just dip to black but wouldn’t go to a commercial.

Mike Dodge 12:14
Yeah, I mentioned that under cinematography, and with editing or whatever. But yet it felt like it was going to black for a commercial break. And then I realized, oh, wait, we’re just watching a movie. So that would be curious if other people watch it in a different streaming service, or if they remembered was it like that, when it first came out?

Christi Dodge 12:36
And so I’m moving on to writing now. And that we set up early. Obviously before Buck gets the call from his brother. He’s talking to his girlfriend, Chanice. And she’s nervous. He’s not going to come to work. She’s finally gotten him a job where she works in and she is setting up. And so he know honey, I’m going to be there. I’m gonna be there like he’s promising her. And so obviously, then he gets his call from his brother. So now he asked to call her and say, hey, guess what.

Christi Dodge 13:10
And I think they do a good job setting up that he has a track record of not showing up. I love it when she says I feel like you like don’t want to take her don’t want this job. He says, Well, yeah, if I had any other choice, I wouldn’t take it. I mean, he was pretty upfront about it. But I wanted to highlight that this was kind of empowering because this was in 1989.

Chanice owns her own tire business, right? That’s pretty Pro. But this is a great scene, because to me, it shows the excellence of John Candy, I’m sure maybe John Hughes, who wrote You know, some of these lines, but it’s a one sided conversation for the viewer. We’re only seeing John Candy side on the phone. And he’s trying to get out full sentences. But you can tell Chanice is cutting him off. And so he’s basically interrupting himself. Do you want to give it because I think if I try it,

Mike Dodge 14:05
Yeah, I’m not really sure I just I’ll say one of my buddies really loved the scene, but it’s like, yeah, but okay, no, no, it’s just always like two or three syllables and he gets cut off. It is so well done. And in the sense it’s kind of a little bit like The Simpsons rake bit that it goes on and it kind of gets to dip and then it comes back.

Christi Dodge 14:27
I’ll see if I can find the clip and put it in the show notes.

Mike Dodge 14:31
But there’s a lot of really funny lines in here. So I don’t know whether it’s John Hughes or John Candy wrote them, but Candy’s delivery, but one that I made a note of that I really love is when Chanice says I want to hear the pitter patter of tiny feet before I die without missing a beat. He says I’ll get you a mouse on a piece of sheet metal. It’s pretty funny, but the probably the best of all, is he’s trying to convince Tia to go bowling later in the film. And she says It’s a great sport and it’s virtually impossible to get pregnant while doing it.

Christi Dodge 15:03
There’s so many great gags in this, like he goes to the wrong house. He has a plate and he accidentally drops it like as a decorative plate in the living room. And he accidentally drops it. So he’s like, wow, they made a non breakable plate. And then he just hits it against the piano. Of course it shatters. I mean, there’s just, there’s just It’s classic 80s Silly kind of John Hughes the he you figured out what it was, is he brings in the, like the tray that I guess you put under a car.

He puts it on top of the stove, and turns it into this giant griddle. And he makes this like up, you know, just insane pancake. And he’s to three feet in diameter. Yeah. And he flips it with like a snow shovel. And then I noticed Did you see? Then there’s a stack of pancakes, these ridiculously large pancakes. And the the pad of butter. Yeah, has to be like, I don’t know, 24 cubes that we’re all putting together. It’s almost like a foot by foot pattern.

Mike Dodge 16:08
It took a bunch of sticks of butter. And you can even kind of see the seams were I think each mush them together. Yeah, but it was funny in the trivia somebody said, Well, you can tell that the pancakes when he served them are a smaller diameter than the pinky cook. So first of all as possible, he had to cut the edges around because they overcooked in order to get the mill cook the outside was over. But also shut up. Move. Finally Yag.

Christi Dodge 16:34
But I liked when he made the pancakes because to me, it was like he’s being irreverent. He’s being an uncle, you who wouldn’t want an uncle to come over and like but two foot pancakes.

Mike Dodge 16:48
Mile is Miles birthday. And he is over the moon that for his birthday breakfast, he gets his giant pancake.

Christi Dodge 16:54
And to me, that’s when we see that because I think at first the kids are a little nervous because they’re just like, oh, is this kite safe? Like Tia hates him right away, we get that she’s a teenager, she’s gonna hate him. The younger two I feel like are kind of a little bit nervous. Like we even see the lunch that he packs for Miles and it’s not what a kid would want. so with that birthday party, that’s like the turn that now the little kids are like, Oh, I like this guy. He’s cool.

Mike Dodge 17:25
Right? There’s a line that set that up from Hughes attention. When very early on Tia says, we need boys so they can grow up, get married and turn into shadows. So her thing is her father is absent. And then she’s dating this loser who is also absent, he just wants a little but he’s not there for in any other way. And so when Buck shows up, he is also like that he’s been absent for Chanice so but the arc here is I feel like the filmmakers and John Candy in particular landed this perfectly because he doesn’t seem like a jerk. He just seems almost like a child. And so he grows up he matures in this film. And so you like him to begin with but you love him by the end of the film. So super well done.

Christi Dodge 18:17
That is evident when I watched there was a deleted scene and I think it was deleted for time because it was pretty long and I can put it in the show notes but I think this shows that moment where he’s kind of like growing up and it’s a pretty funny scene he has all of his friends over and it’s funny because you know we always talk about like the Benetton ad like you know well what this was it was almost like the blue collar Benetton Yeah, one friend worked at a car place. One friend was like a janitor. One for it was like one friend was a construction worker. Like, like village people. It was so funny to see all do different blue collar workers that showed up.

They’re sitting around and they’re playing Pictionary. And they’re all complaining because they’re like, can we just please play poker and they’re betting This is hilarious. They’re betting on these boys. And they’re talking about, well, you know, you didn’t like when we played Chutes and Ladders, and they’re talking about and he goes, I promised my sister in law, that I would not play poker in this house. Why wouldn’t she want them to play poker? Because they’re gambling in front of the children. So they still

Mike Dodge 19:23
gamble still gambling, but there’s still the same kind of guys, but

Christi Dodge 19:27
they’re just playing exactly. As she doesn’t want around her kids, but they’re playing children’s games. And so that makes it but it’s like he’s trying so hard to be the person that he knows his sister in law, because we see throughout the film, he knows she doesn’t like him. There are different things that they show us. He gets a clear message. Oh hates me.

Mike Dodge 19:51
Yeah, but I think it also shows that he’s, he’s smart. Yeah. Because he figures out how to manipulate the 16 year old, right? And I thought it was interesting backing up just a tiny bit about how you mentioned these blue collar guys, and but he’s smart. And so we find some exposition it was really cleverly done it. Miles grills him. And there’s this rapid fire like office. No, why not? Don’t need one. Like and remarried. Yeah, back. No, that’s a long story. Children that easily Yeah. And they go back and wear it.

So it’s a bunch of exposition, but it also establishes, and there’s some also some dialogue in there about how he was happy that he didn’t have to have an office or a day job all of a sudden now he’s at an age where you know what maybe he needs to and then of course, there’s the comic high jinks because then the neighborhood I guess she’s not old enough for a cougar but the divorce a Marcy Marcy, played by Laurie Metcalf wonderfully, now wants to get her hooks into him. And once he’s figured out, he really would like to be more responsible and be nice. Then of course, she finds him dancing in the living room and, and things go sideways in the typical rehearsal. But it’s all centered around that he’s actually a pretty competent guy. He just didn’t appoint himself,

Christi Dodge 21:13
Right. And that scene you were talking about between him and miles the way that they did it is CCandy basically for Macaulay’s close ups, his his shot, Candy was feeding him his lines. He was basically just repeating him. And that’s how they we’re able to get the rapid fire. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, back. Really

Mike Dodge 21:33
well done.

Christi Dodge 21:35
So cool. I like as the film goes on, and he’s now going to rescue Tia. There’s a scene where we think Tia and her boyfriend are in like they’re at a party. And as kids do, they’re up in the one of the upstairs bedrooms. And he busts into the door. So he’s like, like you said, silhouetted with smoking, big drill. So he almost becomes like an action hero in that scene in a way, you know, kind of be one but he is the one that saving the day there. And then it turns out it’s not Tia yet somebody else.

Mike Dodge 22:17
And I liked it. But this might perhaps go into the couldn’t be made today. So he takes this this loser that he was dating bug and he basically kidnapped Yes, DEC takes them up and throws them in the trunk of his car, which I think is actually appropriate for that that kid at least a

Christi Dodge 22:36
misdemeanor?

Mike Dodge 22:39
That might not go well. However, Chicago 1980s. Perhaps you’d be like he deserved it. But so I just to me, I didn’t really kind of remember, he’s almost it’s like crazy like a fox. So like, he brought up pancakes and other stuff. He has creative solutions to thing. So that to me was he wasn’t just kind of like a buffoon. He was just kind of dancing to the beat of his own drummer. And he just needed to kind of get motivated and focus.

Christi Dodge 23:11
Yep. I noticed in older movies, you get to see what actors teeth really look like.

Mike Dodge 23:20
I did notice that some of the actors I will not name the names. This was before they got caps.

Christi Dodge 23:28
Everybody’s teeth are perfect in today’s movies.

Mike Dodge 23:31
Yeah. And I did notice this in a film I saw recently, I think it was the theater, where all of the adults had the caps that are so white, they’re almost blue tinted. Then the 10 year old girl actress, she just has normal teeth. It really stood out the difference when we’ve gotten used to.

Christi Dodge 23:50
So under sets, almost every set in this film was built in a local high school gymnasium, including the Russell’s house and I don’t know if you remember when we I don’t know if we did talk about Home Alone, but maybe I just read this. Hughes apparently like to do this because they did that with Home Alone. Also that there is an exterior in Chicago of the Home Alone house that I think right? Common knowledge. Yeah, people know where it is. But he for the interiors, he’s had them build. In the summer when the schools that being used they use the gymnasium, which that’s just that’s bananas,

Mike Dodge 24:28
If I remember correctly, that’s how they did Animal House. They took like, a football field. And they built all of the sets that they used on the field.

Christi Dodge 24:37
That’s interesting, because I know at least exterior because Animal House was filmed in Eugene,

Mike Dodge 24:43
I misremembered, but I thought it was Animal House, but I know that other productions have done that. Now. This to me, feels like a profligate waste of money.

Christi Dodge 24:53
A huge waste of money, because you’re gonna have to tear it down and you build an entire house,

Mike Dodge 24:58
right? But maybe warehouse base is just so expensive.

Christi Dodge 25:03
Yeah, I don’t know. Yeah. Wow. All right any head trauma and Oh, Uncle Bob is their head and his Buck the only one that gets it

Mike Dodge 25:12
No. at 12:25 the bowling ball falls on his head as we mentioned in the closet at 40:54 he punches the clown twice. That clown really had it coming up at 1:05:10 Buck and Marcy headbutt while dancing the old dancing head but at 1:28:55 Buck gets hits Bug in the head with a golf ball when he releases him from kidnapping and at 1:31:52 Chanice kicks the swinging door into his head and who is that box head because he was listening to when to is giving.

Now I did that scene as a particular thing because they then play the cuckoo sounds like sound. And what I mentioned to you while we were watching it was there are some people who are upset with the gong sound in 16 Candles every time Long Duk Dong did something and they said that it was racist then of course they pick the gong because it’s Chinese sound being of that part is true. But I think what we see here is John Hughes likes kind of morning zoo style sound effects, right he he has a guy with a soundboard. And you know when something happens, he wants the balloon or whatever.

Christi Dodge 26:29
He apparently has a trademark although he also has a trademark of a close up of eyes. I read the so we know Tia smooches her high school boyfriend any other smoochies

Mike Dodge 26:41
smoochy smoochy smoochy. I only have the note of Tia by kissing on the stairs to the high school.

Christi Dodge 26:47
So Chanice didn’t get one at the end with Buck.

Mike Dodge 26:50
No, I think they if I recall correctly, they go to their separate cars. They’re like patched up, but she still has her Bronco there. And he goes to his horrible car instead of just abandoning it on the side of the road, which would be a reasonable thing to do.

Christi Dodge 27:05
Now, Buck has a very interesting vehicle. So I know there’s a driving review.

Mike Dodge 27:10
Yes. Would you like to talk about car? Yes. So this is a 1977 Mercury Marquis. Now I don’t even know how you would say the specific body style is spelled BROUGAN. I don’t think anyone I knew ever pronounced it well. But we maybe would have said BROUGAN. But apparently Brume is actually the the standard pronunciation I don’t know, basically to Ercoupe. I can’t figure out how that carp out so much. It’s like they completely removed the shocks. And it was just pure springs in the back. That was kind of it was funny, but it was a little over the top. I did like that there is the red abandoned auto placard on the dashboard. So somebody had already thought it was abandoned.

Christi Dodge 28:02
A show don’t tell right? ,

Mike Dodge 28:03
Yeah, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what was going on with the engine. Okay, so there’s two things that are, first of all it diesel’s when he shuts it off it keeps running and then it has this really comic backfire right and so throughout the film then then Tia begins to you know wait for it. Wait for it, “bu-dang” however I was thinking other than just the joke Why would that happen? And based on some of the other evidence like the massive oil smoke out of the tailpipe I think he had a problem with the valvetrain and it shows he doesn’t take care of his car. Yes. Which is actually good for the show. Don’t tell because what is his girlfriend do tire store.

Obviously she knows people who could do that. There’s also the parent I think it’s the the parents. They have a white poor tour stationwagon. And that seems kind of dorky now, but at that time that the Taurus was selling like gangbusters that was a a newer for a Midwestern family like that. That was probably considered a a decent ride. But that house is huge. You almost would have thought they’d have like a bull or something right. And then lastly, I mentioned that Chanice has, a brand new Ford Bronco didn’t 89 Bronco in 89. That shows us that not only is she a businesswoman who owns her own business, but she’s successful because she has a new car. So I was like boy, pretty well done. I like how they they told us a little about shinies with their vehicle choice.

Christi Dodge 29:31
Yeah, she was very much a part of the film. Shall we go to the numbers?

Mike Dodge 29:35
Let’s Go to the numbers.

Christi Dodge 29:36
Okay. Uncle Buck came out in 1989. Like I said, I could not find what the budget of Uncle Buck was, but it made domestically $66.7 million and adjusted for inflation today that would be like $153.4 Million.

Mike Dodge 29:56
Probably currently sets in the gym.

Christi Dodge 29:58
I IMDb rated with a 7.1 out of 10 Short Yeah, I think it’s better than that critics gave it 62% While audiences liked it a little bit better 77% It’s a good length at an hour and 40 minutes which I think was just felt right yep. rated a PG. It came out in the 80s it is a comedy and it is very funny. I mean, I was worried about this on I said to you right before we started watching it Yeah, I’m scared this one isn’t going to hold up I’m or it’s going to be cringe or we’re going to be like, Oh my God, this could not be made today.

Mike Dodge 30:46
My expectations were low for rewatch in 2023. But it is although

Christi Dodge 30:53
I was Yeah, I was very pleased that there wasn’t anything objectionable really? No, no, not really. Yeah. Good job, John. Hughes. All right. That will do it. Here’s your second clue. Uncle Buck. For the month of June. Write in. Let me know what you think our theme for June is you’ll get two more clues. Next week will be National Treasure a family favorite. And never forget

Mike Dodge 31:22
Dodges never stop and neither do the movies.

Brennan 31:25
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