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Screenplay John Hughes
Director John Hughes

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Comedy1987

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

Release Date: 1987-11-26

Duration: 93 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Kevin Bacon
    Taxi Racer
  • Steve Martin
    Neal Page
  • Larry Hankin
    Doobie
  • Michael McKean
    State Trooper
  • Dylan Baker
    Owen
  • Laila Robins
    Susan Page
  • John Candy
    Del Griffith
  • William Windom
    Mr. Bryant
  • Ruth de Sosa
    New York Ticket Agent
  • Matthew Lawrence
    Little Neal