Planes, Trains & Automobiles: Directed by John Hughes. With Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean. A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesma
“Planes, Trains and Automobiles” is founded on the essential natures of its actors. It is perfectly cast and soundly constructed, and all else flows naturally.Steve MartinandJohn Candydon’t play characters; they embody themselves. That’s why the comedy, which begins securely planted in the ...
In addition to Del and Neal, other colorful characters include, Doobie (Larry Hankin), scene-stealing Edie McClurg (car rental agent), Taxi Racer (Kevin Bacon) and Dylan Baker, satirical misogynist character, Owen. The duo of Candy and Martin play off of each other inPlanes Trains...
By the timePlanes, Trains and Automobilesrolls up in 1987, Hughes had already written the first twoNational Lampoon’s Vacationmovies, showcasing his chops in the travel comedy genre. While the films were financially successful at the time, critical reevaluation has been comparatively less kind to...
question that director Hughes would find a way to overlap the two movies in this way. Hughes actuallydidtie both films together in another scene inPlanes, Trains & Automobiles, but viewers needed to be especially adept and have exceptionally good hearing to catch it. In one segment, Neal's ...