Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
A yummy Thanksgiving Movie Treat for you to enjoy this holiday!
Steve Martin's marketing executive just wants to get home to Chicago for Thanksgiving in John Hughes' 1987 comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles, but fate constantly stymies those plans. Well, fate and John Candy's shower-ring salesman, a chipper and clumsy clown who becomes his unlikely traveling partner during this rollicking three-day odyssey. The pillow scene remains an all-time classic gag.
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In New York the marketing executive Neal Page wants to travel home to Chicago for Thanksgiving. He has difficulties getting a taxi and his flight is cancelled. He meets in the airport the clumsy and talkative shower curtain ring salesman Del Griffith, who has taken his cab and they travel side-by-side to Chicago. However, the bad weather shuts down O'Hare Airport, and they land at Wichita, Kansas. They both want to go to Chicago, and they decide to travel together. Along their journey Neal changes his viewpoint about Del Griffith and his own behavior.
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Genre: Comedy
Release Date: November 25, 1987
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Rating: R (Restricted)
Director: John Hughes
Studio: Paramount
Review:
"YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY!!!!!!"
18 November 2001 | by SmileysWorld (United States) –
I'm not sure who is responsible for bringing Steve Martin and John Candy together, but they are genius in my book. They were brought together with just the right material. This comedy from John Hughes is without question his best work as a director. I look at this film as a modern day Laurel and Hardy romp, which incredibly was not included in the AFI's Top 100 comedies. It will cause you tears, both from laughter and its touching ending. It is about two very different ways of life, clashing in the beginning, but slowly coming together from the realization that we are all human despite our differences. It is becoming a tradition at the Williams household to view this movie every Thanksgiving. It is a must see, must own film. Thumbs up.
Starring:
Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins
Supporting Actors:
Michael McKean, Dylan Baker, Carol Bruce, Olivia Burnette, Diana Douglas, Martin Ferrero, Larry Hankin, Richard Herd, Susan Kellermann, Matthew Lawrence, Edie McClurg, George Petrie, Gary Riley, Charles Tyner, Susan Isaacs, Lulie Newcomb, John Randolph Jones