" Martin gets uncomfortably close to John Candy in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" (1987). "Roxanne" Columbia Pictures Steve Martin won the Writers Guild of America's award for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Roxanne" (1987), an updated telling of "Cyrano de Bergerac," with Martin in the ro...
Martin and John Candy were a sublime pairing in John Hughes’ “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” (1987), especially in the scene where they wake up in a hotel bed cuddled together. AFI chairman Sir Howard Stringer set the tone early in the night as he approached the podium with an arro...
‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ Everett Collection In the 1987 holiday classic starring Martin and the late, beloved John Candy, Martin’s Neal Page goes off on a Marathon Car Rental agent (played by Edie McClurg) when his car is not on the lot. The moment is one m...