I’ll give it to John Hughes, he had a way of making you feel… stuff.
Dutch, his less-discussed 1991 Thanksgiving road movie, stars Ed O’Neill as the blue-collar everyman stuck on a cross-country trip with Ethan Embry’s hoity-toity prep school snob.
Dutch plays it fast and loose in terms of style and substance, like Career Opportunities, it’s very much John Hughes trying the 90s on for size – before ultimately slipping into cute kid and cute animal Loafers for the rest of the decade. It slides into the slapstick and strained class tension with ease – but it still packs a sentimental wallop when it counts.
Plus it’s great to see O’Neill flex something beyond his signature Al Bundy put-upon exhaustion. -Pop