A comic masterpiece that never goes out of style
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03/07/03
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
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Reviews Counted:42
Fresh:40
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
Hughes has written and directed (he also produced) a perfectly balanced comedy that squeezes every last laugh out of a concept so simple you wouldn't think it could possibly succeed.
01/01/00
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01/29/05
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12/18/03
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11/14/02
The late John Candy does his best work in one of the funniest films of the '80s.
12/12/02
A screwball comedy with a heart, and after the laughter is over the film has generated a lot of good feeling.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe movies that last, the ones we return to, don't always have lofty themes or Byzantine complexities. Sometimes they last because they are arrows straight to the heart.
01/01/00
Top CriticWhat distinguishes this film from others in the genre is the undercurrent of melancholy between the laughs.
11/09/09
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06/29/03
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03/09/08
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
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07/26/02
One of the few truly funny things that both Martin and Candy did.
03/19/03
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06/26/05
It's a great comedy, and a deeply touching one, too.
06/11/02
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
It's the pathos under the boisterous, noisy comedy that helps fuel its continuing popularity today.
01/01/00
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08/13/02
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
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