Editing Uncle Buck (section)

==Reception==
===Box office===
The film earned $8.8 million on its opening weekend in 1,804 theatres and was placed No. 1 at the box office.<ref>{{cite web|date=August 23, 1989|title='Uncle Buck' Is No. 1 At the Movie Box Office|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/23/movies/uncle-buck-is-no-1-at-the-movie-box-office.html?src=pm|access-date=October 22, 2011|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> The film stayed in first place for three more weeks before being bumped down to second by ''[[Sea of Love (film)|Sea of Love]]''. Its US earnings were 18th in 1989, and the film has earned nearly $80 million worldwide since its release.<ref>{{cite web|title=Uncle Buck (1989)|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=unclebuck.htm|work=Box Office Mojo}}</ref>

===Critical reception===
{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|59|5.9|27|consensus=''Uncle Buck'' has its ups and downs, but there's undeniable comedic magic that comes from uniting John Hughes, John Candy, and a house full of precocious kids.|access-date=February 24, 2025|ref=y}} {{Metacritic film prose|51|12|ref=yes|access-date=July 25, 2024}}

[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave the film a score of one and a half out of four, writing that ''Uncle Buck'' was unusually bitter and angry for a Hughes movie: "...Hughes is usually the master of the right note, the right line of dialogue, and this time there's an uncomfortable undercurrent in the material".<ref>{{Cite web|date=August 19, 1989|author-link=Roger Ebert|last=Ebert|first=Roger|title=Uncle Buck movie review & film summary (1989) |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/uncle-buck-1989|access-date=October 27, 2020|website=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|via=[[RogerEbert.com]]}}</ref>