Uncle Buck (1989 John Hughes & scr)

My favourite Candy and Hughes film, perhaps because it's the least sentimental; certain lines are oddly memorable ("I seem to be eating a lot of cheese lately").

Jean Louisa Kelly, now mainly on TV "We need boys so they can grow up and turn into shadows."

Macauley Culkin and Gaby Hoffmann are the other kids, Elaine Bromka mom, with Amy Madigan (what sort of name is Chenice?) and Laurie Metcalfe .

I wonder what impelled Hughes to write about teenagers so much?