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Planes, Trains and Automobiles

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.

19871h 32mRComedy

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About Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Directors
John Hughes
Cast
Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean, Dylan Baker, Kevin Bacon
Genres
Comedy
Content rating
R
Original language
English
Production countries
United States of America
Status
Released

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