Sidney Poitier made his directing debut with this1972 action comedy with an edge to it. ... more
Made at the height of the Black Power movement in America, the film has an unmistakable militancy in its story of a wagon-train guide and a con man who team up to t...
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Sidney Poitier made his directing debut with this1972 action comedy with an edge to it. ... more
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social conscience, BUCK & THE PREACHER is an immensely satisfying Western which marked Sidney Poitier's directorial debut, as well as his first screen pairing w...
Production Year: 1941 - Westerns - Director: Fritz Lang - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Barton MacLane, Robert Young
Production Year: 1976 - Westerns - Director: Irvin Kershner - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Gale Sondergaard, Geoffrey Lewis, William Lucking, Jorge Luke, Richard Harris
Production Year: 1971 - Westerns - Director: Richard Benedict, Douglas Heyes, Leslie Martinson - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: Ben Murphy, Pete Duel
Advantages: funny throughout Disadvantages: predicatble
Uncle Buck is one of those films that is repeated on TV regularly, but still one I enjoy no matter how many times I have seen it.
~The Story~
Bob and Cindy Russell (Played by Garrett M. Brown and Elaine Bromka) have recently moved from Indianapolis to Chicago with their three kids, when one night they receive a phone call to say that Cindy's father has had a heart attack. Not really knowing many people in the area, the couple struggle to find someone to babysit their children, 15 year old Tia (Jean Kelly), 8 year old Miles (Macaulay Culkin) and 6 year old Maizy (Gaby Hoffman). Bob suggests his brother Buck, but Cindy point blank refuses as she thinks Buck is too irresponsible. Bob tries to persuade her that Buck is not as bad as she thinks and realising they don't have any other option she reluctantly agrees.
Buck (John Candy ...
pink_champagne 25.04.2008
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Advantages: Funny Disadvantages: Few errors by director
Introduction ~~
I know that this is one hell of a corny film but it does not take away the fact that this is my all-time favourite film, so I do apologize if this is one heck of a biased review.
Despite Uncle Buck been rather cheesy it was the film that made Macauley Culkin – a rather forgotten actor now who was once huge. The story is quite predictable and right from the start its quite obvious where the film is going but John Candy adds a quite brilliant charm to the film and provides plenty of humour.
Story ~~
Bucks brother Bob played by Garrett M. Browns father in law has a heart-attack so Bob and his wife head to the hospital. Slight problem though, they have three children and its too short notice to call anyone to look after them. So as a last resort Bob and his snobbish wife phone Uncle Buck, the member of their ...
Disillusioned 04.07.2001
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Advantages: John Candy; other good, if less noteworthy, performances; funny Disadvantages: A weak resolution
John Hughes' UNCLE BUCK was released in 1989 and today is one of, if not his best films, his most beloved films.
Buck Russell is a complete disaster of a human being. His health is as unreliable as his weight in kilos, he drinks too much, smokes too many cigars, gambles for a living, he lives in a dump, drives one large steaming dump of a backfiring car and he finds it difficult to gain the respect of anyone he cares about. One is his fiancé, at her wits end with him, and another is his posh brother and his snobbish wife who, having to visit her sick father out of town, is reluctantly forced, after never having invited him to their home before, into leaving him with the responsibility of babysitting their three children and one dog due to the fact that several other far more capable people were unable to do it. The children consist ...
Charles_Strickland 27.07.2007 (19.10.2007)
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Three recently-freed slaves head out West to start new lives after the American Civil War. Their trip is impeded by a tough racist who viciously resents their new-found freedom.
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Sidney Poitier directs and stars in this all-black western about an ex-Union Army cavalry soldier leading a group of recently-freed slaves to the western frontier in post-Civil War America. Tagging along with Buck are his wife Ruth (Ruby Dee) and a con man disguised as a preacher (Harry Belafonte, in his first onscreen pairing with Poitier). The black homesteaders' progress is seriously impeded by a sadistic racist (Cameron Mitchell) and his band of murderous thugs who resent the slaves' newfound freedom and wish to send them back to a life of servitude and sharecropping in Louisiana. With equal parts drama and comedy--as well as Biblical allusions to the story of Exodus--Buck and his followers must summon all their courage to contend with the racists on their journey to freedom.
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