Planes, Trains & Automobiles
A riotously springy holiday knockabout.
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Part of our Throwback Thursday series. For details, visit: www.laemmle.com/tbt.
The theme of this month’s Throwback Thursday screenings is "New Year’s Resolutions," more specifically “resolutions gone wrong.” With Planes, Trains and Automobiles, that resolution is ‘travel more.’ Returning to Chicago for Thanksgiving with his family, easily annoyed businessman Neal Page (Steve Martin) finds his first-class plane ticket has been demoted to coach, and he must share his flight -- and, it turns out, the next 48 hours -- with obnoxious salesman Del Griffith (John Candy).
Genre
Comedy,
Throwback Thursdays
Runtime
93
Language
English
Director
John Hughes
Cast
Steve Martin
FEATURED REVIEW
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Planes, Trains and Automobiles" is founded on the essential natures of its actors. It is perfectly cast and soundly constructed, and all else flows naturally. Steve Martin and John Candy don't play characters; they embody themselves. That's why the comedy, which begins securely planted in the twin ...
Played at
NoHo 7 1.28.16 - 1.28.16
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