John Candy is “Uncle Buck†in writer-director...
John Candy is “Uncle Buck†in writer-director John Hughes’ next screen foray. The film finds Candy caught between a young professional couple and their three kids--ages 5 to 15. There will also be a romantic interest for the capacious actor in the Universal production, which goes before the cameras in January in Chicago for producer Tom Jacobson . . . . Brian Dennehy headlines Orion’s “Street Legal,†a thriller about cops who “cross the line,†which films locally in December. John Mackenzie directs the George Armitage-Jere Cunningham screenplay for producer John Davis.
“Great Balls of Fireâ€--its actor Alec Baldwin cast as Jerry Lee Lewis’ charismatic cousin Jimmy Swaggart opposite Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee. Filming starts in Memphis this week . . . . Priscilla Barnes plays a marine scientist who discovers an underwater alien in New Horizon’s “Lords of the Deep,†filming locally in next month for producer Roger Corman. Mary Ann Fisher directs the yarn, which co-stars Bradford Dillman as an unscrupulous industrialist and Daryl Haney--who wrote the screenplay--as a project engineer.
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