1987 · comedy
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Directed by John Hughes1h 32m1987
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.
Our read: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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“You want Thanksgiving road-trip chaos that melts into genuine buddy warmth.”
Skip it tonight — Frantic travel misery and bathroom humiliation comedy are not your mood.
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