This is not your typical Steve Martin movie. This is funny and beautiful too. Steve plays a guy trying to get home in time for Thanksgiving holiday. John Candy is the fat talkative salesman accompanying him for no reason.
Steve loses a taxi, their flight gets cancelled, the train they take stops in the middle of nowhere, they get robbed in a motel, their rented car burns up,....
This is hilarious but not in a typical comedy movie way. There is more of the familial feel to it, like a Christmas movie.
Watch it with patience and by the end of it, you will feel the family love oozing out of you as well.
Written, produced and directed by John Hughes, in 1987, there is another version - a 2010 film "Due Date" starring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis follows a similar plot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planes,_Trains_and_Automobiles
At Wikipedia, read the Production section - a lot of effort seems to have gone to make the movie possible.
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