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  Review by pd187 ★★★ 12

  this isnt very funny & has a caddyshack/trump-grade understanding of "working class" meaning "wealthy but crass guy who offends country club prudes" (millionaire dutch runs construction sites all over town with his name on them & tosses bankroll$ like its nothing while beefing with truckstop waitresses & greyhound bus passengers) but i love ed oneill and ethan embry is good as hell (cant imagine another child actor who could pull off this character/dialogue) and holy SHIT is this dumb comedy beautifully shot-- i went on imdb to find out if the dp was some shanghaied arthouse ringer like when woody allen shoots his talky yuppie fuckfests with the dp from mccabe & mrs miller but NO its a guy who started on 80s slashers…

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  Review by Sam G🎄 ★★★½ 2

  Happy Thanksgiving! 

  & don’t forget “Nothing burps better than Bacon!”

  This is a pretty fun/lighthearted, John Hughes written, road trip, thanksgiving comedy/comfort movie. I mean it’s completely over the top in certain areas and stretches things quite a bit, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy it. Mainly thanks to Ed O’Neill. He’s great. The young performance from Ethan Embry, is pretty good too and the chemistry that builds between them was nice & sweet. I mean you can see where this ends up from MILES away, yet still landed for me in the end and I’m just a sucker for these kinda road trip comedy’s. 7.4/10❄️

  Thanks for inspiring me to watch BrashBelle and also thank you for making it happen Kevflix!

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  Review by Draymoney ★★½ 2

  I tried to make this a Thanksgiving tradition with my family.

  They left.

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  Review by Speeg ★★★ 4

  A Thanksgiving film that inexplicably features a spontaneous roadside fireworks display in the snow. That’s just the first of many offenses Ed O’Neill should’ve been carted off to jail for. Mostly just mean-spirited vitriol in place of comedy, there’s a few laughs, but the whole thing feels like a retread of similar themed “Gruff father figure deals with precocious young prick” films from the previous half decade. I feel like Hughes wrote this in his sleep after dozing off on the couch with an episode of Married…With Children playing in the background. I could probably warm up to this film though, and maybe I’ll watch it this November instead of PT&A for the 20th time.

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  Review by FakeVoorhees ★★★★

  "Nothing burps better than bacon."

  The other John Hughes Thanksgiving road trip comedy. It may be less seen and less appreciated than Planes, Trains and Automobiles but it's not too far behind it in my book.

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  Review by Scarecrow88 ★★★½

  I was thinking about how much I wished JoBeth was in a little longer than what she gets in the film, but because she still taps into that frustrated mom who wants a serious connection with her son, dealing with a dad often neglecting his son equipped with money and influence, I credit her with taking very little and making a lot out of the role.

  I am so glad this popped up on HBO Max this year! I have a shitty DVD copy and I wish I understood why this doesn't have a nicer physical media release so I could add it to my library. At that time when it was on HBO when I was like 13, I…

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  Review by Lebowskidoo 🇨🇦 🎬 🍿 ★★★★

  Working class Dutch agrees to pick up his girlfriend's young teenage son from prep school and drive him home for Thanksgiving. To say that their personalities clash would be an understatement of epic proportions.

  John Hughes does a little recycling with Dutch, borrowing heavily from Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Two mismatched guys on a road trip during the Thanksgiving holiday season. The similarities mostly end there. Dutch is not a joke-a-minute comedy, it leans pretty far towards drama most of the time. It has some unnecessary fat that could have been cut, but it's really not a bad movie at all. It has a darker edge, a more realistic approach, than certain other Hughes movies. Maybe that's why it was never a big hit. I liked it a lot.

  Ed O'Neill and Ethan Randall (now known as Ethan Embry) make for a great team, with some solid but scattered laughs. Their relationship seemed very believable.

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  Review by BrashBelle ★★★★ 4

  Unpopular opinion, this is a better Thanksgiving John Hughes film than Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, there’s something about Planes, Trains that I find annoying during some revisits. Dutch is delightful in a twisted way. I love seeing little Ethan Embry being a complete asshole and Ed O’Neill as an everyday man who is ten times smarter than Ethan. The film is emotionally manipulative and completely unrealistic, I love every second. It’s also really funny. My disc this year was skipping and Kevflix came to my rescue. ❤️

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  Review by Travis Lytle ★★★

  The John Hughes-scripted, Peter Faiman-directed "Dutch" feels like it is cobbled together from chunks of better Hughes scripts, but it is still a fun, remarkably moving comedy. Following an odd couple pairing heading home for the Thanksgiving holiday, the film may come off as consisting of rejected pages from "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" and "Home Alone," but it is a worthy, sometimes charming piece of work.

  "Dutch" follows Dutch Cooley, an apparently working class, regular Joe, as he escorts his girlfriend's jerk of a son back to her for Thanksgiving. The two in no way get along, but Dutch is determined to put his best face forward and try to tolerate the intolerable school boy. A series of road-based adventures…

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  Review by Sara Jean ★★★★ 4

  I'm a big fan of Married with Children. Combine that and the fact that I watched this a lot (on laserdisc) growing up, this movie is an easy win for me.

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  Review by BenGrayeyard ★★½ 2

  Happy Thanksgiving!  
  Dutch is a Thanksgiving movie, and it’s written by John Hughes. I had no idea he had done so many holiday movies. Dutch is definitely not his best, but I’m a sucker for a road-trip movie. This one stars Al Bundy himself, Ed O’Neil, which is really what makes this movie entertaining. Ed O’Neill has to be the most lovable asshole of the early 90s. Well maybe second to Bill Murray. Okay, Al is the most lovable asshole dad. 
  Dutch is predictable, but it’s a solid watch on Thanksgiving. My wife wanted to watch a Christmas movie😬

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  Review by Scarecrow88 ★★★ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  It really will have folks feeling Hughes just mined his own better material, refurbished it in a different package with O’Neill (working class, blue collar, built his own business but doesn’t look sophisticated or cultured) and Embry (boarding/private school kid often snooty and stuck up, considering his dick father some sort of symbol of excellence when he’s just some corporate elitist prick) on the road themselves, encountering comedy road trip problems right before Thanksgiving – including a car crash that leaves them without a vehicle, theft when O’Neill is pickpocked by prostitute Dailey, and arguments when the clashing of personalities and upbringing causes lots of clashes. Hughes even reaches into the previous year’s “Home Alone” when two security guards with…