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A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion. (R, 93 min.)
7:00 PM
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Easily excitable Neal Page (Steve Martin) is somewhat of a control freak. Trying to get home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his wife (Laila Robins) and kids, his flight is rerouted to a distant city in Kansas because of a freak snowstorm, and his sanity begins to fray. Worse yet, he is forced to bunk up with talkative Del Griffith (John Candy), whom he finds extremely annoying. Together they must overcome the insanity of holiday travel to reach their intended destination.
Starring: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins
Director: John Hughes
Genre(s): Comedy, Drama
"One of the funniest films ever made."
— David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews
"One of the finest comedy performances of 1980s cinema."
— Grant Watson, Fiction Machine
"A surprisingly powerful, and incredibly funny, little movie led by two terrific performances and John Hughes' razor sharp script."
— R.L. Shaffer, IGN
"Bringing two comedic geniuses, Martin and Candy, together on the big screen was a brilliant idea with obviously positive results."
— Allison Rose, FlickDirect
"Led by the chemistry between Steve Martin and John Candy, John Hughes'Planes, Trains, and Automobiles remains a quintessential Thanksgiving classic."
— Danielle Solzman, Solzy at the Movies
"Man versus technology has been one of the staples of screen comedy since the earliest silent days, and Hughes makes the most of the format here packing as many of the frustrations of modern life as he can into this calamitous travelog of roadside America."
— Variety Staff, Variety
