Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

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Advertising executive Neal (Steve Martin) has a bad time trying to get home to his family in Chicago for Thanksgiving, with unlikely companion Del (John Candy), a shower curtain ring salesman. An odd-couple comedy about a long series of setbacks suffered with (on Neal's part) ill grace.

John Candy is wonderful and I'm starting to see why his passing was so mourned. It's actually a little problematic; he's so likeable that Steve Martin's character rapidly becomes unsympathetic.

- Sam - 2021-06-09 11:29:15