It is, of course, always a pleasure to watch Martin's steam-gauge face register his rising internal pressures and to witness his exquisitely expressed blowoffs. But Candy offers even more insinuating delights.
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11/21/08
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
95 %
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Reviews Counted: 41
Fresh: 39
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: All Neal Page (Steve Martin) wants to do is make it home from a business trip in New York City and spend Thanksgiving with his family in Chicago. Instead, he finds himself rerouted from New York's... [More]
Starring: Steve Martin, John Candy, Kevin Bacon, Michael McKean
Director: John Hughes
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Reviews for Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Top CriticProducer-director-writer Hughes infuses his film with an appealing sense of sentiment and humanity -- not to mention many hilarious scenes.
11/21/08
Man versus technology has been one of the staples of screen comedy since the earliest silent days, and Hughes makes the most of the format here packing as many of the frustrations of modern life as he can into this calamitous travelog of roadside America.
11/21/08
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03/09/08
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11/13/07
This slapstick comedy -- with Steve Martin playing the fussy straight man -- should never have worked, but it does, and well enough to earn a place as a holiday classic.
11/17/06
There's plenty of big laughs in this odd-couple comedy, but the main characters are also given a number of human moments, which leads to an ending that's downright poignant.
02/20/06
Essentially, it's the stars' keenly observed nuances of character that make this comedy amiable enough.
02/09/06
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07/24/05
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07/07/05
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06/26/05
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05/18/05
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01/29/05
What’s amazing, especially after repeated viewings, is that both actors are playing such extremes, yet you’re never annoyed by them.
01/15/05
Consistently funny comedy of forced relationships.
01/05/05
Will resonate with anyone who has been frustrated by the inconveniences of travel.
08/28/04
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12/18/03
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08/22/03
Planes, Trains and Automobiles showed that Hughes wasn't in fact some man-child searching for the reasons for his adulthood discontentment.
08/07/03
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