Uncle Buck

Uncle Buck (1989) is a John Hughes family comedy you can watch online on iFILM. John Candy plays Buck Russell — a cheerful, utterly disorganised bachelor who gets drafted as emergency babysitter when a family crisis pulls his brother and sister-in-law away. No plan. No clue.

The two younger kids love the chaos. Teenager Tia does not. Buck burns pancakes the size of hubcaps, picks fights with the school principal, and somehow turns every ordinary day into a minor disaster. Yet the mess has a point. Hughes wrote and directed the film the same year Macaulay Culkin appears in a small role — twelve months before Home Alone made him a star. Candy's performance is warm and surprisingly real beneath all the slapstick. Watch Uncle Buck (1989) online on iFILM.