{"id":36315,"date":"2024-07-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36315"},"modified":"2024-07-28T19:37:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T23:37:23","slug":"planes-trains-and-automobiles-1987-written-directed-by-john-hughes-starring-steve-martin-john-candy-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36315","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Planes, Trains and Automobiles&#8221; (1987) written &amp; directed by John Hughes, starring Steve Martin &amp; John Candy \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z072924zview_planestrainsauto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"756\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>John Hughes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>John Hughes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Steve Martin<\/strong><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\">, John Candy<\/strong><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\">, Laila Robins, Michael McKean, Carol Bruce, Olivia Burnette, Martin Ferrero, Larry Hankin, Richard Herd, Susan Kellermann, Matthew Lawrence, Edie McClurg, George Petrie, Gary Riley, Charles Tyner, Diana Castle, Ben Stein, Troy Evans, Richard Fike, William Windom <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"> and <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\">Kevin Bacon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Advertising executive, Neal Page (Martin) is beat. A boring business trip to New York City has left Neal ready for family time.\u00a0 Thanksgiving is in a couple of days and Neal is flying home tonight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Or so he thinks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An accidental encounter with shower curtain salesman, Dell Griffith (Candy) costs Neal his cab.\u00a0 Which is par for the course for Neal going forward.\u00a0 Once on the plane he finds himself squeezed in next to Dell.\u00a0 When their plane is diverted because of weather, Neal discovers no other flights are scheduled.\u00a0 To make matters worse all hotels are sold out.\u00a0 So when Dell offers to share the room he was able to book, Neal agrees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next morning, they discover weather has grounded all flights.\u00a0 Neal just wants to get home.\u00a0 Dell suggests that they forget the plane and take a train.\u00a0 Neal agrees.<\/p>\n<p>Neal and Dell are just two guys who want to get home in time for Thanksgiving.\u00a0 What else could go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>Everything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Planes, Trains and Automobiles&#8217;<\/em> leads are perfectly cast and features my favorite John Candy role.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Those aren&#8217;t pillows!&#8221;<\/em> is the first thing I think of when someone mentions this film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first cut of the film was reportedly over three hours long.\u00a0 John Hughes then edited it down to two hours.\u00a0 Some of the scenes from that cut (that didn&#8217;t make the final film) appear in trailers.\u00a0 The released cut of <em>Planes, Trains and Automobiles<\/em> was one hour and 33 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Michael McKean and Kevin Bacon are the fourth and fifth credited stars.\u00a0 Both appear in just one scene.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><i><b><em><strong>Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)<\/strong><\/em> <\/b><\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\">rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z072924zview_planestrainsauto2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) Director: John Hughes Screenplay: John Hughes Stars: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36321,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36315\/revisions\/36321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}