Hughes was so taken by the performance of little Macaulay Culkin that he wrote the kid his own vehicle - “Home Alone.” (For more wild comedy, try “ This Is the End” and “ Liar Liar.”)

But Hughes’s savvy script slowly reveals that Buck is wiser than he seems, and Amy Madigan lends welcome support as his best girl.

Candy’s Buck at first seems like a rehash of his “Planes, Trains” character, a vulgarian chatterbox hilariously out of his element. Candy is the title character, the black sheep of a well-to-do nuclear family who is brought in as a last-choice babysitter when the parents leave town for a medical emergency. Two years after their celebrated collaboration on “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” the writer and director John Hughes and the comedian John Candy reunited for this rough-and-tumble comedy. (Baumbach’s “ Marriage Story” and “ The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)” are also on Netflix.) Scott wrote, as Baumbach dissects this family’s woes and drama with knowing precision. The film is “both sharply comical and piercingly sad,” A.O. Laura Linney is passive-aggressive perfection as his mother, while Jeff Daniels, as the father, captures a specific type of sneeringly dissatisfied Brooklyn intellectual. Two young men growing up in Park Slope, Brooklyn, weather their parents’ nasty divorce in this ruthlessly intelligent and mercilessly evenhanded coming-of-age story from the writer and director Noah Baumbach, who drew upon his own teenage memories and put himself, not altogether appealingly, into the character of the 16-year-old Walt (a spot-on Jesse Eisenberg).

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