The film "Uncle Buck" is not a comedy for me, it's more of a drama and that's because of Tia Russell. Her character kills any kind of perceiving the funnier parts as comedy for me.
If they hadn't written her character so horribly over the top and made her "boyfriend" a bit funnier and she had caught him with someone else herself... well, to make the ending right, a lot of things were written the way they are.
The film without Tia, where he only looks after the little ones and then things go wrong in the household and then maybe a side story with the racetrack and the interested neighbour, would have been a good film, so it is just about bearable. It would have been a real prequel to "Home Alone" and Candy could have used much more of his potential.
You can see the possibilities immediately and if someone with a sense of humour had read the script, a lot could have been fixed. But then it really would have been a comedy and not a moral education film.
If they hadn't written her character so horribly over the top and made her "boyfriend" a bit funnier and she had caught him with someone else herself... well, to make the ending right, a lot of things were written the way they are.
The film without Tia, where he only looks after the little ones and then things go wrong in the household and then maybe a side story with the racetrack and the interested neighbour, would have been a good film, so it is just about bearable. It would have been a real prequel to "Home Alone" and Candy could have used much more of his potential.
You can see the possibilities immediately and if someone with a sense of humour had read the script, a lot could have been fixed. But then it really would have been a comedy and not a moral education film.