Movie

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.

1987★ 7.3 · 2.2K1h 32mComedy

Overview

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.

Trailer

Trailer · Paramount Movies Trailer

Watch on YouTube ↗

Images

Backdrops & posters from TMDB

16 images

Cast

Kevin Bacon
as Taxi Racer

Michael McKean
as State Trooper

Dylan Baker
as Owen

Steve Martin
as Neal Page

Laila Robins
as Susan Page

John Candy
as Del Griffith

Larry Hankin
as Doobie

William Windom
as Mr. Bryant

Matthew Lawrence
as Little Neal

Edie McClurg
as Car Rental Agent

Troy Evans
as Antisocial Trucker

Martin Ferrero
as Motel Clerk

Information

Community

7.3/ 10

2.2K TMDB votes

7.3

Your rating

Saved in this browser · counts toward collection progress

Release date: 1987-11-26

Budget: $15,000,000

Revenue: $49,500,000

Runtime: 1h 32m

Genres

Comedy

Where to watch

Availability via TMDB / JustWatch

Country

Logos show where this title is listed (stream, rent, or buy). TMDB does not provide direct links into Netflix or other apps — use the button below to open TMDB’s watch page (JustWatch data) for this country.

Open watch options on TMDB

FreeAd-supported or free tier