Uncle Buck facts
While investigating facts about Uncle Buck, I found out little known, but curios details like:
The actor John Candy, famous for appearing/starring in such films as Stripes, Blues Brothers, Vacation, Splash, Little Shop of Horrors, Spaceballs, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Home Alone, Cool Runnings, etc, died at the age of only 43 (in 1994 within 1 month of Kurt Cobain).
Roger Ebert hated "Uncle Buck" because he felt it had mean-spirited black humor
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 5 of the best facts about Uncle Buck I managed to collect.
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There was a 1991 Indian remake of Uncle Buck called "Uncle Bun," but from the looks of it, it was nowhere near as heartwarming and funny.
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Two years after the original came out there was an Indian remake of Uncle Buck called Uncle Bun
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My great great uncle "Buck" Montgomery was killed in a robbery when a Northern California stagecoach he was defending was attacked. It was held up by by the Ruggles brothers who were jailed later and broken out by a mob sympathetic to the stagecoach men, and hung.
