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They're the best of friends... And they've got the scars to prove it.
To get to know his girlfriend's son, a man volunteers to pick him up from a prep school....only to learn that her son's not the nicest kid.
Dutch
1991 Directed by Peter Faiman
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Driving me crazy, De Volta pra Casa, Az agyamra mész!
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Relationship comedy Underdogs and coming of age Crude humor and satire christmas, holiday, heartwarming, family or joy teenager, school, friendship, funny or nerds chemistry, hilarious, romantic comedy, sweet or humorous family, emotional, emotion, touching or kids comedy, relationships, funny, quirky or humor Show All…
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this isnt very funny & has a caddyshack/trump-grade understanding of "working class" as "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 and 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 to imdb afterwards expecting to find 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…
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"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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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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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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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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Wasn't overly impressed by this in my youth, and revisited it due to mistaking its holiday backdrop for Christmas instead of Thanksgiving.
Retreads a number of previous Hughes themes - Uncle Buck for the Married with Children crowd. Both leads are wonderful, but there is enough sexually charged material to make one's skin crawl, specifically grown stranger bonding with child over adult playing cards.
At the very least, this made the recentest DRAGNET the most inspired casting ever.
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Retreading ground already covered in Planes, Trains & Automobiles and Uncle Buck, Dutch has its moments here and there but the overall affair is an unfortunately bland effort from writer and producer John Hughes.
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This is my favorite Thanksgiving film. I watch it every fucking year. Ethan Embry is such a little shit. He could probably kick my ass though.
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People always seem to wanna know what the meaning of life is...
Well, that's easy.
It's M80s, Dragon Tongues, Bombay Bugles, Jersey Stinkers, a bag of pretzels, and a deck of racy playing cards.
You're welcome...
Dutch is another classic Thanksgiving road movie, featuring America's favorite dad and the Devil's Candy.Ed O'Neil stars as Dutch Dooley. He's charged with picking up his new girlfriend's son Doyle from Boarding School and delivering him home for the holidays.
Doyle has a chip on his shoulder the size of the Rock of Gibraltar from being the son of the filthy stinking rich, '90s asshole stand-by, Shooter McGavin.
Dutch is from a more humble stock. He talks of things like "good old fashioned,…
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Sooo nostalgia plus I’m a total John Hughes whore. I’m not going to apologize for loving this corny heartwarming film. Happy Thanksgiving Eve!
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Dutch is the other movie that John Hughes wrote about an unlikely pair going on a wacky road trip to get home for Thanksgiving, except this time the leads are Ed O'Neill and a bratty kid. John Hughes did not direct this, however, and Peter Faiman did a fine enough job getting it to feel like a Hughes movie. There's nothing I particularly hated about this, but you can tell it was kind of a paycheck for all involved, especially because the script is just Planes, Trains, and Automobiles with new characters and hijinks. It's got a few funny parts, and a few sweet parts, but it was all very hollow. It's fun to see family comedies that are pretty crass (this even has an F word). I don't know, it's not one I particularly care for, but it still provides a cozy feeling. 5.5/10
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