Planes, Trains and Automobiles
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73% Critic Match

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.

7.3 / 10 1987 1h 32mR English
Comedy

Storyline

An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.

Cast & Crew

Steve Martin

Steve Martin

Neal Page

Lead
John Candy

John Candy

Del Griffith

Laila Robins

Laila Robins

Susan Page

Michael McKean

Michael McKean

State Trooper

Dylan Baker

Dylan Baker

Owen

Kevin Bacon

Kevin Bacon

Taxi Racer

Olivia Burnette

Olivia Burnette

Marti Page

Carol Bruce

Carol Bruce

Joy Page

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. John Hughes's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
4.0
Every frame feels alive. Planes, Trains and Automobiles is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker