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Planes, Trains and Automobiles


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 La Guardia Airport to Wichita, Kansas. With no other options, Neal decides to share a room in a fleabag hotel with antoher stranded traveler, Del Griffith (John Candy). From that point on the two are linked together as they try to get home via trains, planes and automibiles.

 

DVD

  • Dolby Surround AC-3
  • Noise Reduction
  • Widescreen/Letterboxed In English
  • Dolby Digital 5.1
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Trailers - 1.Original Theatrical Trailer


Curator's Comments:
Roger Ebert's essay on this DVD Classic.

Director: John Hughes
Color
92 minutes
Released: 1987
Rating: R

Country: U.S.A.
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

 

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