Uncle Buck
With this film, Hughes injected a rogue element into his suburban stomping ground by placing John Candy’s titular character, a distinctly urban version of the American loser, in the home of his wealthy relatives. Buck may be crude but he’s never unkind, at least not to those who don’t deserve it. As reductive a cultural anthropologist as Hughes may have seemed at times, this film highlights the fact that, at his heart, he was interested in the better angels of humanity, no matter what form they came in.