John Candy 's tender performance in Uncle Buck was far more than just acting – it was a message directed at Macaulay Culkin 's domineering father about what a loving parent should be, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

The late comedy star, who died in 1994 aged just 43, is remembered in the new documentary John Candy: I Like Me , which recently opened the Toronto International Film Festival. Article continues below advertisement

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In the film, Culkin, now 45, recalls Candy's protective presence on set during the making of John Hughes’s 1989 hit Uncle Buck , where he played the chaotic but

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