Planes, Trains and Automobiles
93 minutes,
USA (1987), 15
Average user rating 
(4.6 / 74 votes)
(4.6 / 74 votes)
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 Review
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
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.
Neal Page (Martin) is the cynical advertiser who first clashes with Del Griffith (Candy) over a cab in NYC, then finds himself stuck with the loudmouth lump for the next two thousand miles. Trains break down, cab-drivers are drunk, their bus is a draughty shag-wagon and their rented car melts.
Neal Page (Martin) is the cynical advertiser who first clashes with Del Griffith (Candy) over a cab in NYC, then finds himself stuck with the loudmouth lump for the next two thousand miles. Trains break down, cab-drivers are drunk, their bus is a draughty shag-wagon and their rented car melts.
"Expertly executed and very funny"
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