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Overview

User Rating:
7.5/10   28,878 votes
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Director:
John Hughes
Writer:
John Hughes (written by)
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Release Date:
25 November 1987 (USA) more
Genre:
Adventure | Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
Steve Martin had no reason to panic...until John Candy came along. more
Plot:
A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion. full summary | add synopsis
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The best Thanksgiving movie ever! more (264 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (USA) (video box title)
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Runtime:
93 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Filming Locations:
Acton, California, USA more

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Trivia:
John Candy and Steve Martin eat dinner on the plane in a scene that is not in the theatrical version though it airs on the televised version. The scene ends with a long-haired passenger in front of Steve Martin letting his or her hair cascade down onto his brownie, completely covering it. No longer hungry, John Candy fishes through the hair to retrieve and eat it. more
Goofs:
Errors in geography: A bus from Jefferson City to St. Louis would not cross the Mississippi; it would enter St. Louis from the other direction. more
Quotes:
Neal: You know everything is not an anecdote. You have to discriminate. You choose things that are funny or mildly amusing or interesting. You're a miracle! Your stories have NONE of that. They're not even amusing ACCIDENTALLY! "Honey, I'd like you to meet Del Griffith... more
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Referenced in In the Strangest Places (2005) more
Soundtrack:
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41 out of 43 people found the following comment useful.
The best Thanksgiving movie ever!, 1 December 2005
10/10
Author: Lee Eisenberg (eisenberg.lee@gmail.com) from Portland, Oregon, USA

When jittery advertising executive Neal Page (Steve Martin) is trying to go home for Thanksgiving, he gets stuck with boorish shower ring salesman Del Griffith (John Candy). Their experiences over the next two days are some of the funniest moments ever to grace the silver screen. The best parts are the "pillow" scene, the car rental scene, and the freeway scene (warning: you may very well laugh yourself to death). But overall, the reason that the movie is so good is because we come to understand why these two men are like they are.

I can't do "Planes, Trains & Automobiles" justice by trying to describe it. You have to see it to understand how hilarious it is. You won't have a dull moment in it.

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