Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Theatrical - Wide 1987-11-25

Cast Steve Martin John Candy Laila Robins Michael McKean Dylan Baker
Directed by John Hughes
Written by John Hughes

Box Office Gross: $49,500,000

Running Time: 92 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: Paramount Pictures, Hughes Entertainment

Genres: Comedy

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Synopsis

An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.

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