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Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

Film · 1987 · 92 min · R · Comedy

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.

Directed by John Hughes

Starring Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean, Dylan Baker, Kevin Bacon, Olivia Burnette, Carol Bruce

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In cinemas26 November 1987
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First release anywhere26 November 1987

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