PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES

Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins

Paramount Pictures; Directed by John Hughes

Rated R; 93 minutes; 1987

Every traveler’s nightmare becomes real in this road trip comedy. All Neal Page (Steve Martin) wants to do is get home for the Thanksgiving holidays. But his road home is filled with u-turns and pitfalls. When Neal is befriended by loud and annoying Del Griffith (John Candy) things go from bad to worse.