Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Country: US
Technical: col 93m
Director: John Hughes
Cast: Steve Martin, John Candy
Synopsis:
En route home for Thanksgiving, businessman Neal Page finds his flight cancelled and is obliged to adopt almost every conceivable alternative means of transportation in the company of an ingratiating but clumsy shower-ring salesman who has decided he is going in the same direction.
Review:
A sort of L'emmerdeur set-up which did for the older professional audience what Hughes's high school films had done for teenagers, namely to provide escapism with a little extra. That quantum of 'content' in the present case was the heart-warming Thanksgiving message that the most unprepossessing stranger can become your most loyal companion, which is where it parts company with Francis Veber and rejoins Frank Capra.
Country: US
Technical: col 93m
Director: John Hughes
Cast: Steve Martin, John Candy
Synopsis:
En route home for Thanksgiving, businessman Neal Page finds his flight cancelled and is obliged to adopt almost every conceivable alternative means of transportation in the company of an ingratiating but clumsy shower-ring salesman who has decided he is going in the same direction.
Review:
A sort of L'emmerdeur set-up which did for the older professional audience what Hughes's high school films had done for teenagers, namely to provide escapism with a little extra. That quantum of 'content' in the present case was the heart-warming Thanksgiving message that the most unprepossessing stranger can become your most loyal companion, which is where it parts company with Francis Veber and rejoins Frank Capra.
Country: US
Technical: col 93m
Director: John Hughes
Cast: Steve Martin, John Candy
Synopsis:
En route home for Thanksgiving, businessman Neal Page finds his flight cancelled and is obliged to adopt almost every conceivable alternative means of transportation in the company of an ingratiating but clumsy shower-ring salesman who has decided he is going in the same direction.
Review:
A sort of L'emmerdeur set-up which did for the older professional audience what Hughes's high school films had done for teenagers, namely to provide escapism with a little extra. That quantum of 'content' in the present case was the heart-warming Thanksgiving message that the most unprepossessing stranger can become your most loyal companion, which is where it parts company with Francis Veber and rejoins Frank Capra.