Planes, Trains and Automobiles
1987 · 1h 32m · Comedy · United States of America · Rated R (US)
What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.
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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John Hughes7.2Smart score
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