John Hughes

Eight-year-old Kevin is left alone for the holidays and must defend his house from a pair of bumbling burglars.

A chronicle of the events experienced by a rather magical 17-year-old, who has an overwhelming urge to cut school one spring day and head for downtown Chicago with his girl and best friend to see the sights and experience a day of freedom.

It's Samantha Baker's sweet sixteen and no one in her family remembers the important occasion. But wait ... the day isn't over yet!

A high school tomboy has a crush on her best friend, and is distraught when he falls for a rich snob. Keith, Watts and Amanda prove once and for all that you've got to risk a broken heart in order to find your one true love.

A suburban Chicago family travels across the United States on a comic trek to an amusement park, and encounters a series of disasters along the way.

Uncle Buck, an idle good-natured bachelor, is left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. While his carefree ways easily charm the younger relatives, he meets more than a little hostility from Tia, his rebellious teenage niece, and Chanice, his impatient girlfriend.

She's a high school girl from the wrong side of town. He's the wealthy heart-throb who asks her to the prom. But as fast as their romance builds, it's threatened by the painful reality of peer pressure.

Five high school students - a Rebel, an Athlete, a Brain, a Princess and a Basketcase - find themselves thrown together serving a Saturday morning detention. They do not have much in common, except giving up their day, sitting in the school library, and writing an essay for the principal. At first, they argue and hate each other, but after smoking some of John's marijuana, they begin to pour their hearts out to each other. They talk about their fears,...

Baby Bink is kidnapped by three men posing as photographers. While his wealthy parents frantically search for him, the three crooks have their hands full keeping up with their infant charge.

Chicago. Another town, another innocent scam for vagabond Bill Dancer and the curly-topped orphan he's cared for since infancy. This time, however, Bill hits the jackpot and his newest con whisks them both from the poorhouse to the penthouse with lots of laughs along the way.