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Planes, Trains & Automobiles is an American comedy movie produced in 1987. It was written and directed by John Hughes and stars Steve Martin and John Candy.

Steve Martin plays the tightly wound Neal Page, a bundle-of-nerves straight man a la Bud Abbott. John Candy portrays the innocent but always skewered Del Griffith, who seems to live in a world governed by a different set of rules, a la Lou Costello. Edie McClurg has an especially funny scene as a car rental agent who toys with Steve Martin's character's limited control of his own personal reality.

The movie follows the story of Neal Page as he tries to return to his family for Thanksgiving after being on a business trip. The journey is doomed from the outset, with Del Griffith interfering by snatching the taxi cab that Page had hailed for himself. The two inevitably pair up later and begin an absurdly error-prone adventure to help Page back to his home. When every mode of transit fails them, what should have been a brief New York to Chicago flight turns into a mishmash of cancelled, broken, and worthless trips in the wrong direction.

The film was greeted with critical automobile sales training applause in 1987, a surprising revelation given the fact that at the time Steve Martin and John Candy were both known as low brow comedians and John Hughes was considered a teen angst filmmaker. Their attempts at producing an "adult" comedy resulted in one of the most highly regarded films of the decade. (It now has 100% positive ratings on RottenTomatos.com and is featured in automobile sales training hiring Roger Ebert's Great Movies collection.)

As a trivia note, it is Steve Martin's favorite film of his own work, and is rumored to have been Candy's favorite, as well.

Tagline: What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.

Quotes

(in bed in a hotel room waking up holding hands)

• Neal: automobile sales training internet "Del, why did you kiss my ear?"
  
• Del: "Why are you holding my hand?"
  
• Neal: "Where's your other hand?"
  
• Del: "Between two pillows"
  
• Neal: "Those aren't pillows!"

External links

• Planes, Trains & Automobiles at the Internet Movie Database
  
• Roger Ebert's Great Movies review