Planes, Trains and Automobiles
What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.
What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What...
Comedy
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1987
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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.
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Runtime:
92 min
Release date:
26 Nov 1987
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$15,000,000
Revenue:
$49,500,000
Awards:
1 nomination total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Pretty dispensable.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
26 Jul 2011
fresh:
It is, of course, always a pleasure to watch Martin's steam-gauge face register his rising internal pressures and to witness his exquisitely expressed blowoffs. But Candy offers even more insinuating delights.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
21 Nov 2008
fresh:
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,
21 Nov 2008
fresh:
Essentially, it's the stars' keenly observed nuances of character that make this comedy amiable enough.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
The film does have its scattered moments. But too often, the audience has as much reason as Del and Neal do to wonder where, if anywhere, they are going.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003