{"id":21485,"date":"2023-06-11T18:48:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T22:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=21485"},"modified":"2025-03-29T21:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T01:04:36","slug":"uncle-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/uncle-buck\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Buck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;What&#8217;s your record for consecutive questions asked?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uncle Buck<\/strong>, released in 1989<\/p>\n<p>Cindy&#8217;s father had a heart attack so she and her husband Bob are going back home. They had trouble finding someone to look after their kids, so they asked Bob&#8217;s brother Buck. They were reluctant to ask him, since he doesn&#8217;t know anything about kids and has a sketchy lifestyle. Tia and Buck butt heads, but the younger kids like him.<\/p>\n<p>No one could play Buck like John Candy &#8212; he&#8217;s very funny.<\/p>\n<p>I like how he makes giant pancakes for Miles&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about how someone who doesn&#8217;t know you very well can still help you out, whether you want that help or not.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Jean Louisa Kelly, Macaulay Culkin, Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Madigan, and Laurie Metcalf. Directed by John Hughes (<strong>Planes, Trains &amp; Automobiles<\/strong>). The jazzy music is by Ira Newborn.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 3rd or 4th time I&#8217;ve seen it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;What&#8217;s your record for consecutive questions asked?&#8221; Uncle Buck, released in 1989 Cindy&#8217;s father had a heart attack so she and her husband Bob are going back home. They had trouble finding someone to look after their kids, so they asked Bob&#8217;s brother Buck. They were reluctant to ask him, since he doesn&#8217;t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,6,5],"class_list":["post-21485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-comedy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21485"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24500,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21485\/revisions\/24500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}