6. A business card for Del Griffith, the John Candy character in Planes, Trains & Automobiles, that was designed by Aaron Draplin, of Draplin Design Co., in 2008. (Draplin, the creative force behind the popular Field Notes brand of memo books, was a late-in-life friend of Hughes’s.)...
He has no idea that Allen has become romantically involved with the mermaid that he found on the beach. All of the characters in the film are dealing with their own brand of rejection. Candy’s character comes across as extremely vulnerable. This is a great film for anyone that grew up i...
The star of “Uncle Buck,”“Planes, Trains & Automobiles,”“Stripes” and many other films was 43. Hector Partida, a spokesman for the government of Durango state, 400 miles northwest of Mexico City, said Candy was stricken in his sleep and was found dead in his trailer when paramedics ...
Candy appeared in eight films which were either directed, written or produced by Hughes. Chris recounts a story Hughes shared about a classic scene from the 1987 film Planes, Trains and Automobiles:“They were really overbudget and overschedule, and Paramount was coming down to get everything ...
Finally, “Uncle Buck” (MPAA-rated PG) has a medium-level Hughes script, only about half as good as “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” about 50 times as good as “The Great Outdoors.” Before things go all awry in the final stretch, which has Buck patching things up with long-suffer...
film I love called “Delta” byKornél Mundruczó, and then there was my DPNicholas [Knowland] elsewhere. Mátyás and I went out with a very small, minimal crew to shoot various things, stuff like underwear in the sink, which was my little tribute to “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles....
Hughes collaborated with the well-established comedians John Candy and Steve Martin in Planes, Trains, & Automobiles (1987); Candy later appeared in the Hughes-penned Uncle Buck (1989). A scene from the box-office hit film Home AloneMacaulay Culkin (foreground) with Joe Pesci in Home Alone ...
(2010) • "Planes" (2013) • "Golf Etiquette" (1973) • "Cheers" (1987) • "Absolutely Anything" (2015) • "Spud 3: Learning to Fly" (2014) • "Whitney" (2012–2013) • "The Magic Pudding" (2000) • "Around the World in 80 Days" (2004) • "The Love Ban" ...
” as he toldPremierein 1999. “Everybody, in all of my movies, is from Shermer, Illinois. Del Griffith fromPlanes, Trains & Automobileslives two doors down from John Bender. Ferris Bueller knew Samantha Baker fromSixteen Candles. For 15 years I've written my Shermer stories in prose, ...