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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby, Digital Audio, English, Dolby Digital (5.1)
Neal Page is an advertising executive who just wants to fly home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his family. But all Neal Page gets is misery. Misery named Del Griffith - a loud mouthed, but nevertheless loveable, salesman who leads Neal on a cross-country, wild goose chase that keeps Neal from tasting his turkey. Steve Martin (Neal) and John Candy (Del) are absolutely wonderful as two guys with a knack for making the worst of a bad situation. If it's painful, funny, or just plain crazy, it happens to Neal and Del in PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES. Every traveler's nightmare in a comedy-come-true!
"...a screwball comedy with a heart, and after the laughter is over the film has generated a lot of good feeling. " Roger Ebert
Editor's Note
All Neal Page (Steve Martin) wants to do is make it home from a business trip in New York City and spend Thanksgiving with his family in Chicago. Instead, he finds himself rerouted from New York's La Guardia Airport to Wichita, Kansas. With no other options, Neal decides to share a room in a fleabag hotel with Del Griffith (John Candy), a shower-curtain-ring salesman and fellow stranded traveler. Although Neal finds Del to be a buffoon, he just can't seem to get away from him. To make matters worse, all their efforts to get back to Chicago fail as trains break down and rental cars catch on fire. Along the way they encounter crazy cabbies, redneck truck drivers, and oversexed bus passengers. John Hughes's (SIXTEEN CANDLES, THE BREAKFAST CLUB) first film to feature adults after his success with teen films features fine performances from Martin and Candy. Kevin Bacon, who appeared in Hughes's next film, SHE'S HAVING A BABY, makes a small but humorous appearance, as does Edie McClurg, known for her role as the high school secretary in FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF.
Plot Summary
An advertising executive who just wants to fly home to spend Thanksgiving with his family is stuck with a loud but lovable salesman during an unbelievable succession of blizzards, transfers, strikes, and delays.
| Features | English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround | | French Dolby Digital Surround | | Enhanced For 16X9 TV | | Interactive Menus | | Theatrical Trailer | | Scene Access | | English Subtitles (for the deaf and hard of hearing) |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Planes, Trains and Automobiles - DVD Review By: Pete Croatto - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 10/9/2009 11:09 PM | |
In 1987 John Hughes took a huge risk. The man who had spent three years profiling the lives of teenagers did the unthinkable: He wrote and directed two movies featuring adults: She’s Having a Baby and Planes, Trains and Automobiles. She’s Having a Baby is a pleasant comedy, but PTA is an absolute gem and one of the 1980s' most overlooked movies, a mixture of human drama and dizzying goofiness that qualifies it for timeless status. I should know. A co-worker and I continually quote lines from this 17-year-old movie. At this point we could audition for a remake. ...read the full review |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 3/22/2005 |
| Running Time: 93 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1987 | | Catalog ID: 320364 | | UPC: 00097363203643 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"...An effective nightmarish comedy....Steve Martin and John Candy repeatedly recall a contemporary Laurel & Hardy..." 11/25/1987Los Angeles Times
"...There is no denying the craft of either Martin or Candy..." 11/25/1987 p.C1 Chicago Sun-Times
"...It is perfectly cast and soundly constructed, and all else flows naturally..." 11/12/2000 p.3 Washington Post 8 of 10
John Candy is so exuberantly cherubic that his feet never seem to touch the ground...What John Hughes, who wrote, directed and produced the film, has done here is make a weirdly inventive, offkilter comedy out of the horrors of modern travel. And in the process, he's also managed to make the funniest road movie since "Lost in America." - Hal Hinson
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