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Planes, Trains and Automobiles

1987

John Hughes

Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Lyman Ward ...

6.0

5,724

Comedy. Action 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, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' is founded on the essential natures of its actors (...) Steve Martin and John Candy don't play characters; they embody themselves (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"It's a fine cinematic treat that doesn't demand much from a viewer, but gives back a lot, both in terms of laughter and good feeling."	POS
United States	Rolling Stone	"The ultimate Thanksgiving film"	POS
United States	The Hollywood Reporter	"Hilarious and touching."	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"If [John Hughes] direction is slick, his script lacks wit and perception"	NEU
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"What John Hughes has done here is make a weirdly inventive, off kilter 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"	POS
United States	TV Guide	"Hughes infuses his film with an appealing sense of sentiment and humanity--not to mention many hilarious scenes"	POS
United Kingdom	Gavin Bainbridge Empire	"A warm, mature offering from Hughes, with Martin's restraint a perfect counterpoint to Candy's enormous (and enormously amusing) fooling around (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"Pretty dispensable, though it has one of the best homosexual-panic gags I've ever seen"	NEU

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