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Planes, Trains and Automobiles 93 minutes, USA (1987), 15
(3.0)
Rating: 3.0 Stars
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Steve Martin and John Candy in Planes, Trains And Automobiles

Steve Martin and John Candy lead John Hughes' freewheeling road-trip comedy. An uptight ad exec and a boisterous curtain-ring salesman struggle to make the trip from New York to Chicago. Disaster repeatedly intervenes

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles: After the success of The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, John Hughes managed to catch two of America's best mainstream comics at the peak of their powers. The result is a fast-paced and fantastically energetic two-man show that ranks among the director's finest films...
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