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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★ 14

  153rd Review for The Collab Weekly Movie Watch

  The film is a delightful road trip that evokes the spirit of the 90s from the moment Alan Silvestri and his orchestra play the first whimsical note from his score. Ed and Ethan are both pretty solid together and individually, though Embry, as it tended to happen with a lot of these troubled kids in the 80s, but especially in the 90s, was a little too annoying, though to his credit he grew on me and became likeable enough towards the end, though one could say his shift of heart was a little too abrupt and convenient. But I digress. The writing by the one and only John Hughes is also solid;…

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  Review by pd187 ★★★ 11

  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 Dan Abel ★★★

  Dutch Dooley is a nice guy with a pleasant demeanor who has been dating a woman named Natalie, a divorcee from a wealthy ex-husband. Her son Doyle is a mean spirited kid who only respects his father. He lives in an elite boarding school and blames her for the divorce. Seeing a bonding opportunity, Dutch drives the few hundred mile trek to pick up Doyle and get to know him on the way home for Thanksgiving. Thus begins a trip between a spiteful kid and a street smart man that could make or break a relationship.

  Most things produced by the late great John Hughes tend to be family themed classics or iconic teen movies like Home Alone or The…

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  Review by Ziglet_mir 8

  Viewed with the Collab.

  Depending on who you ask John Hughes was a great writer. He was, after all, the "voice of a generation" as they call it. A 1990 interview captures him saying his career path was never planned, just one thing led to the next and... here we are. Historically, there has always been fascination in naming the unnamed, wherein, explorers and wanderers would go to the far reaches of the Earth to somehow capture what they've seen. In a different sense, Hughes was maybe pinpointing what has always been "unnamed", which is a various spectrum of things through a kid's eye.

  That same interview tells a small snippet of his personal philosophy, that he never wanted to be…

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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 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 Sidibus ★★★

  English Version below ...

  Dutch (1991)
  Der Giftzwerg

  Sie sind die besten Freunde ... und die Narben beweisen es.

  Dutch: Du bist vielleicht der härteste kleine Schläger in der Junior High, aber in meiner Welt bist du ungefähr so ​​besorgniserregend wie ein bewölkter Tag.

  Drehbuch & Produktion: John Hughes

  Dutch (Ed O'Neill) will den Sohn seiner Freundin besser kennenlernen und bietet an, Doyle (Ethan Embry) aus dem Internat abzuholen. Doch die Fahrt wird für ihn alles andere als entspannt, da sich Natalies Sohn als echter Giftzwerg entpuppt und Dutch das Leben schwer macht.

  Ich hab Dutch geschaut um eine der wenigen John Hughes Lücken in meiner persönlichen Filmliste zu füllen. Zudem hab ich mich auf eine der wenigen Hauptrollen von Al…

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  Review by Daniel Shillito ★★

  It should be next to impossible to screw up a John Hughes script, but somehow Dutch manages to do so with comparative ease. While the film does feature some inspired comic setpieces and decent performances by O'Neill and Embry, unfortunately, the film makes itself hard to enjoy thanks to an aggressively unlikable set of characters and retreading the overly familiar ground of Hughes' previous Thanksgiving road trip dramedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles. If you're a fan of Hughes' work, Dutch might be worth viewing as a curiosity since it's the final film of this type he would make before focusing exclusively on family comedies; bland direction, flat characters, poor plotting and an overall lack of cohesive dynamic between the more…

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  Review by Scarecrow88 ★★★½ 18

  There are still a few scenes that feel unnecessary, such as security guards with nightsticks trying to attack Embry (and attacking O'Neill unprovoked) and Embry's outrageous attempt to drive O'Neill's car (nearly getting killed by a truck driver), but, even though John Hughes is less than subtle in his screenplay, the messaging on classes I really appreciate. The emphasis on how Dutch appears "struggling working class" although he runs a construction company, and Embry's snooty, privileged private school snobbery experiencing some "lessons on the road": Hughes certainly does make sure it's loud and clear. I couldn't count how many times Embry pointedly calls O'Neill working class as if the mere mention of it from his lips leaves a sour taste.…

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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 ★★★★ 6

  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. ❤️