Quotes

Buck: Hey, I stopped smoking cigarettes.

Cindy Russell: Oh, good.

Buck: Isn't that something? I'm on to cigars now. I'm on to a five-year plan. I eliminated cigarettes, then I go to cigars, then I go to pipes, then I go to chewing tobacco, then I'm on to that nicotine gum.

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Uncle Buck (1989) - 15 mistakes

Directed by John Hughes, starring John Candy, Macaulay Culkin (add more)

Genres: Comedy, Drama

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Continuity: When Uncle Buck and Tia are talking in the car after Uncle Buck kidnapped Bug, the first 5-6 shots show a red box and some envelopes near the windshield. In the next shot there are two envelopes near the windshield, no red box.

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Continuity: The scene where the elementary school teacher asks his kid what they did that week. After he asks that question and Maizy raises her hand, look at the desk belonging to the girl in the row next to Maizy. It has crayons and other supplies on it. After the teacher calls Maizy's name, the shot goes back to her, showing the girl in the next row's desk completely empty.

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Continuity: When Buck is talking to Shanice on the phone, and she's at her desk at the tire store, she accidentally slams her hand down on an ink stamp pad. When she first does it, her wrist is covered by a black sweater sleeve. When she lifts her hand up, her wrist is bare.

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Other: At the beginning of the scene where Uncle Buck takes the kids bowling, there is a short clip in which three men wearing red bowling shirts are simultaneously drinking bottles of beer. If you watch the man on the right, he covers the opening with his thumb as he tips the bottle up to his mouth.

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Continuity: When Buck is making the huge pancake and he is sliding the snow shovel under the pancake to flip it the shovel is only one-third the size of the pancake. As he is actually flipping the pancake the shovel is almost the same size as the pancake.

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Visible crew/equipment: When Buck accidentally takes the stray cat into the house, if you look in the slat between the frame and the door you can see a crewmember waiting to close it, not the kids. This person is too big for a 6 year old.

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Factual error: In the shot where Uncle Buck is in the living room dancing with that woman, the song "Laugh Laugh" by the Beau Brummels is playing. However, the 45 we see spinning on the turntable is not "Laugh Laugh". It is a 45 on the Uni label, and the Beau Brummels' 45s were on the Autumn label.

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Continuity: At the beginning of the bowling alley scene, Uncle Buck rolls a ball in unison with a man on the next lane. The ball knocks over all the pins, but when they cut back to Buck celebrating his strike, the man next to him is rolling another ball already.

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Continuity: When Uncle Buck takes the kids to school for the first time and the car backfires, the kid who has his cap blown off, you can clearly see that his face is black with smoke before the car backfires.

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Continuity: When Buck is on the highway driving to the house and trying to remember the kids' names, we see a white 4x4 travelling the same speed as him but several lanes over. When it cuts to a shot of the rear of Buck's car, there is a small sedan now in the left lane beside him that wasn't there before.

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Continuity: When Buck first takes the kids to school and drops of Tia the engine backfires and shoots oil/smoke in a boy's face. In the next shot no one is behind the car.

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Continuity: When Uncle Buck gives up waiting for Tia at school and starts his car, thick smoke billows up continuously next to his window. The camera angle changes immediately and then smoke is only seen well behind the rear bumper.

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Revealing: In the scene where Buck causes all the pots and pans to crash while Tia and her mother are hugging, the final of the "reaction shots" is a close up of the two kids. You can see Amy Madigan squeeze their arms as a cue to make their shocked expressions; prior to this Gaby Hoffman was looking up with a neutral expression on her face.

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Continuity: In the scene where the dad tells the mom that Buck will be able to stay with the kids, the moms arms go from uncrossed to crossed in a flash.

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Continuity: When Buck is doing laundry, he takes a plate of clothes out of the oven and sits it in front of him. After the shot of him burning himself, the plate has disappeared.

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