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(Redirected from Planes, Trains and Automobiles)
'''Planes, Trains & Automobiles''' is an American comedy movie produced by Paramount Pictures in 1987 . It was written and directed by John Hughes and stars Steve Martin and John Candy. Laila Robins co-stars and the film features cameos by Michael McKean, Kevin Bacon, Lyman Ward and William Windom. The movie also features Ben Stein, Larry Hankin, Edie McClurg, Dylan Baker, Bill Erwin and Matthew Lawrence.
'Tagline': ''What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.''
Steve Martin plays the tightly wound Neal Page, a bundle-of-nerves straight man. John Candy portrays the innocent, but always skewered, Del Griffith (Director of sales, American Light and Fixture, shower curtain ring division), a shower curtain ring salesman who seems to live in a world governed by a different set of rules to those governing Neal Page's marketing life.
The movie follows the story of Neal Page as he tries to return to his family for Thanksgiving after being on a business trip. The journey is doomed from the outset, with Del Griffith interfering by snatching the taxi cab that Page had hailed for himself. The two inevitably pair up later and begin an absurdly error-prone adventure to help Page to get back to his home. When every mode of transport fails them, what should have been a brief, New York to Chicago flight turns into a mishmash of cancelled, broken, and worthless trips in the wrong direction.
As is expected in circumstances like these, Neal frequently blows up at Del, blaming him for much of their misfortunes, though mere fate's more at fault. Del in turn regards Neal as pretentious and uptight, while Del is less afraid to be himself. After much heated arguments between the two men, a bond between them forms, and Neal finally manages to overcome his self-centeredness and both men pull together to finally make their way home.
Under the assumption that Del has a wife and family of his own (he frequently mentions his wife Marie), Neal is taken aback when he later sees Del alone in an empty E-train station, after they finally make it back to Chicago. Del tells Neal that he is in fact homeless, and that his beloved Marie actually passed away eight years ago. The bond between the two men strengthens further when Neal invites him into his home for the holidays.
The film was greeted with critical applause in 1987, a surprising revelation given the fact that at the time Steve Martin and John Candy were both known as relatively low-brow comedians and John Hughes was considered a teen angst filmmaker. Their attempts at producing an 'adult' comedy resulted in one of the most highly regarded films of the decade. (It now has 97% positive ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and is featured in Roger Ebert's Great Movies collection.) In 2000, readers of ''Total Film'' magazine voted it the 10th greatest comedy film of all time.
The film is rated ''R'' by the MPAA for a scene including a substantial amount of strong language. Steve Martin goes on a tirade against a car rental agent (Edie McClurg) and uses the word fuck 19 times in just over a minute.
The scene is dubbed for television, and the rest of the film is family-friendly.
The film was released on DVD in 2000, and although there is a three-hour version of the film in the Paramount Studios film vault, the original theatrical version is featured on the DVD in a 'bare bones' presentation.
A known deleted scene of Neal and Del eating airline food, that is commonly seen on the version of the film edited for television, is not on the disc either.
★ Kevin Bacon plays the man who races Steve Martin to the taxi at the beginning of the picture. During the shooting of PT&A, John Hughes was also filming ''She's Having a Baby'', in which Kevin Bacon starred and interestingly, the latter film can be heard playing on a television in a later scene, even though it was launched into theaters after Martin and Candy's movie.
★ The frenetic musical score makes extensive use of the folk song ''Red River Valley''. The film features the instumental remake of the song, ''Red River Rock'', performed by British group Silicon Teens.
★ The song Neal tries to sing on the bus is Three Coins in the Fountain.
★ Three actors in this film were also in John Hughes' film ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'': Edie McClurg, who played the rental agent in the infamous "fuck" scene, played principal Ed Rooney's secretary, Grace. Lyman Ward, Neal's co-worker at the beginning of the film, played Tom Bueller, Ferris' father and Ben Stein, who has a cameo as ticket counter customer, was also featured in ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'', as Ferris's put-upon economics teacher.
★ The film is both Steve Martin's and John Candy's favorite performances of their own.
★ The shot of the plane that Page and Griffith are riding on near the beginning of the film is a shot of the plane from the movie ''Airplane!''. However, the image has been enlarged so the faux "TA" Airline logo is not visible on the aircraft. Both ''Airplane!'' and ''Planes, Trains and Automobiles'' were released by Paramount Studios (and both partly took place in Chicago).
★ The house that served as Neal Page's house later became the McCallister home in ''Home Alone'' and ''.
★ The motel scene (Braidwood Inn) that was said to be in Wichita, was actually filmed in Braidwood, Illinois.
★ A quick scene after the credits shows Page's boss still trying to decide which ad layout to use, while his Thanksgiving dinner (including an entire turkey) sits on his desk next to him.
★ The song Dashboard by Modest Mouse features a reference to the movie with the line 'The dashboard melted, but we still have the radio'.
★ Del's Chrysler Town and Country rental car has the same paint scheme as the "Family Truckster" from the film National Lampoon's Vacation, another John Hughes movie.
★ Richard Herd, an actor ultimately best known for his roles as villains in science fiction and military/techno thrillers, makes a brief cameo appearance at the end of the film as Neal's kind-hearted father-in-law Walt
★ Neal's mother in law in the final scene is none other than Carol Bruce aka Mama Carlson from WKRP in Cincinnati.
★ The film inspired Kamal Hassan to make Anbe Sivam, a Tamil movie which was received very well by critics.
★ In the scene where Neal and Del's bus is entering St. Louis, the bus is actually entering the city from the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, which would be going away from Chicago, rather than towards.
★ The film features an egregious editing error/ommision whereby, during the scene when Mrs Page is eating dinner with her three kids, the arm and head of another woman are seen at the bottom of the screen holding the attention of the youngest child (presumeably to keep him/her still during the filming of the scene).
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'''Planes, Trains & Automobiles''' is an American comedy movie produced by Paramount Pictures in 1987 . It was written and directed by John Hughes and stars Steve Martin and John Candy. Laila Robins co-stars and the film features cameos by Michael McKean, Kevin Bacon, Lyman Ward and William Windom. The movie also features Ben Stein, Larry Hankin, Edie McClurg, Dylan Baker, Bill Erwin and Matthew Lawrence.
'Tagline': ''What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.''
| Contents |
| Plot |
| Response |
| Rating |
| Releases |
| Trivia |
| External links |
Plot
Steve Martin plays the tightly wound Neal Page, a bundle-of-nerves straight man. John Candy portrays the innocent, but always skewered, Del Griffith (Director of sales, American Light and Fixture, shower curtain ring division), a shower curtain ring salesman who seems to live in a world governed by a different set of rules to those governing Neal Page's marketing life.
The movie follows the story of Neal Page as he tries to return to his family for Thanksgiving after being on a business trip. The journey is doomed from the outset, with Del Griffith interfering by snatching the taxi cab that Page had hailed for himself. The two inevitably pair up later and begin an absurdly error-prone adventure to help Page to get back to his home. When every mode of transport fails them, what should have been a brief, New York to Chicago flight turns into a mishmash of cancelled, broken, and worthless trips in the wrong direction.
As is expected in circumstances like these, Neal frequently blows up at Del, blaming him for much of their misfortunes, though mere fate's more at fault. Del in turn regards Neal as pretentious and uptight, while Del is less afraid to be himself. After much heated arguments between the two men, a bond between them forms, and Neal finally manages to overcome his self-centeredness and both men pull together to finally make their way home.
Under the assumption that Del has a wife and family of his own (he frequently mentions his wife Marie), Neal is taken aback when he later sees Del alone in an empty E-train station, after they finally make it back to Chicago. Del tells Neal that he is in fact homeless, and that his beloved Marie actually passed away eight years ago. The bond between the two men strengthens further when Neal invites him into his home for the holidays.
Response
The film was greeted with critical applause in 1987, a surprising revelation given the fact that at the time Steve Martin and John Candy were both known as relatively low-brow comedians and John Hughes was considered a teen angst filmmaker. Their attempts at producing an 'adult' comedy resulted in one of the most highly regarded films of the decade. (It now has 97% positive ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and is featured in Roger Ebert's Great Movies collection.) In 2000, readers of ''Total Film'' magazine voted it the 10th greatest comedy film of all time.
Rating
The film is rated ''R'' by the MPAA for a scene including a substantial amount of strong language. Steve Martin goes on a tirade against a car rental agent (Edie McClurg) and uses the word fuck 19 times in just over a minute.
The scene is dubbed for television, and the rest of the film is family-friendly.
Releases
The film was released on DVD in 2000, and although there is a three-hour version of the film in the Paramount Studios film vault, the original theatrical version is featured on the DVD in a 'bare bones' presentation.
A known deleted scene of Neal and Del eating airline food, that is commonly seen on the version of the film edited for television, is not on the disc either.
Trivia
★ Kevin Bacon plays the man who races Steve Martin to the taxi at the beginning of the picture. During the shooting of PT&A, John Hughes was also filming ''She's Having a Baby'', in which Kevin Bacon starred and interestingly, the latter film can be heard playing on a television in a later scene, even though it was launched into theaters after Martin and Candy's movie.
★ The frenetic musical score makes extensive use of the folk song ''Red River Valley''. The film features the instumental remake of the song, ''Red River Rock'', performed by British group Silicon Teens.
★ The song Neal tries to sing on the bus is Three Coins in the Fountain.
★ Three actors in this film were also in John Hughes' film ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'': Edie McClurg, who played the rental agent in the infamous "fuck" scene, played principal Ed Rooney's secretary, Grace. Lyman Ward, Neal's co-worker at the beginning of the film, played Tom Bueller, Ferris' father and Ben Stein, who has a cameo as ticket counter customer, was also featured in ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'', as Ferris's put-upon economics teacher.
★ The film is both Steve Martin's and John Candy's favorite performances of their own.
★ The shot of the plane that Page and Griffith are riding on near the beginning of the film is a shot of the plane from the movie ''Airplane!''. However, the image has been enlarged so the faux "TA" Airline logo is not visible on the aircraft. Both ''Airplane!'' and ''Planes, Trains and Automobiles'' were released by Paramount Studios (and both partly took place in Chicago).
★ The house that served as Neal Page's house later became the McCallister home in ''Home Alone'' and ''.
★ The motel scene (Braidwood Inn) that was said to be in Wichita, was actually filmed in Braidwood, Illinois.
★ A quick scene after the credits shows Page's boss still trying to decide which ad layout to use, while his Thanksgiving dinner (including an entire turkey) sits on his desk next to him.
★ The song Dashboard by Modest Mouse features a reference to the movie with the line 'The dashboard melted, but we still have the radio'.
★ Del's Chrysler Town and Country rental car has the same paint scheme as the "Family Truckster" from the film National Lampoon's Vacation, another John Hughes movie.
★ Richard Herd, an actor ultimately best known for his roles as villains in science fiction and military/techno thrillers, makes a brief cameo appearance at the end of the film as Neal's kind-hearted father-in-law Walt
★ Neal's mother in law in the final scene is none other than Carol Bruce aka Mama Carlson from WKRP in Cincinnati.
★ The film inspired Kamal Hassan to make Anbe Sivam, a Tamil movie which was received very well by critics.
★ In the scene where Neal and Del's bus is entering St. Louis, the bus is actually entering the city from the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, which would be going away from Chicago, rather than towards.
★ The film features an egregious editing error/ommision whereby, during the scene when Mrs Page is eating dinner with her three kids, the arm and head of another woman are seen at the bottom of the screen holding the attention of the youngest child (presumeably to keep him/her still during the filming of the scene).
External links
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