Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Best known for his teen flicks, John Hughes (The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off) brings us two extra-juvenile delinquents: Neal Page (Steve Martin), a snooty marketing exec, and his accidental companion, Del Griffith (John Candy), a lumbering and loquacious curtain ring salesman. When their flight back to Chicago is canceled, Neal and Del decide ride-share might work and off they go, a moving misadventure. Every mode of mobility fails in this road movie from hell-a-funny. And moving it is as these two misfitted foes become friends after surmounting their own well-traveled problems. Hey: “Those aren't pillows!”

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