Planes, Trains and Automobiles
What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.
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.
- Director
- John Hughes
- Signature
- Craft · Humour · Tension
- Worldwide
- $50M
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What It's About
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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.
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Box Office & Release
Planes, Trains and Automobiles returned 3.3× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $15M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $50M
- Release date
- Nov 26, 1987
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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