Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a 1987 American comedy film written, produced and directed by John Hughes. The film stars Steve Martin as Neal Page, a highstrung marketing executive, who meets Del Griffith, played by John Candy, an eternally optimistic, outgoing, overly talkative, and clumsy shower curtain ring salesman who seems to live in a world governed by a different set of rules. They share a threeday odyssey of misadventures trying to get Neal home to Chicago from New York City in time for Thanksgiving dinner with his family.
Neal Page is an advertising executive in marketing trying to return to his family for Thanksgiving in Chicago after being on a business trip in New York City, but is delayed by an executive who cannot decide which mockup will be used for an ad. After their meeting ends without a decision, Neal tries to find a cab and successfully hails one, but is beaten to the punch by another man Kevin Bacon in a cameo appearance. Del Griffith, a traveling salesman who sells shower curtain rings, has interfered by leaving his trunk at the edge of the street, causing Neal to trip while racing the man for the cab. Del then inadvertently snatches a taxi ride that Neal has bought from an attorney. The two meet again at JFK Airport where they board a plane to OHare. Their plane is diverted to Wichita due to a blizzard in Chicago. What should have been a 1hour and 45minute New YorktoChicago flight turns into a threeday ordeal, in which everything that can go wrong does.The pair resort to various means to try and reach Chicago, but one attempt after another is defeated either by bad luck or Dels incompetence. Forced to share a room in a shabby budget motel on the first night, Neal loses his temper with Del and insults him. In response, Del admits that he regards Neal as a cold cynic and says that despite how Neal feels, he likes himself and is liked by others because he is not afraid to be the way he is. Neal calms down and the two men go to sleep. During the night their cash is stolen by a burglar. ........
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