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  Review: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, a 1987 feature from John Hughes, represented something of a watershed in the career of the prolific writer/director/producer.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles was a bridge between the two phases of his career, containing elements of both character development and physical comedy.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is one of those rare movies that manages to mingle outrageous comedy and light drama in such a way that we aren't repulsed or offended by its simplicity and occasional mawkishness.
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 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' (R)
In the new John Hughes film, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles," John Candy is so exuberantly cherubic that his feet never seem to touch the ground.
If you're sitting quietly minding your own business waiting for your plane to take off and there's only one seat left on the aircraft and it's right next to you and a not-small person squeezes his way past the stewardesses and advances toward you grinning a big, blobby grin...
As it turns out, "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" is a story about a man who can't get home and learns to value it and his family all the more because of his difficulties.
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 :: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies (xhtml)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
When "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" was released in 1987, I enjoyed it immensely, gave it a favorable review and moved on.
The buried story engine of "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" is not slowly growing friendship or odd-couple hostility (devices a lesser film might have employed), but empathy.
One night a few years after "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" was released, I came upon John Candy (1950-1994) sitting all by himself in a hotel bar in New York, smoking and drinking, and we talked for a while.
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 Movie Review - Planes, Trains & Automobiles - Hollywood Bitchslap   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" is a shining example of the pure goodness that can come from two actors working at their peak, free of vanity and financial concerns.
"Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" is a rambling, unforced account of how they forge a friendship over the course of their long way home.
Further, furthermore, it is the kind of film that, after the shock of the unexpected settles in, all those things we expected only minutes ago, and then forgot about, really DO happen, in rapid succession, with beautiful results.
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 Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
In any case, even without its profanity, Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a solidly funny and entertaining film - as long as it sticks with its stars.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
With a list price of $29.99 and no supplements, Planes, Trains and Automobiles may be a little pricey for a purchase, but it would definitely make for a nice holiday rental.
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 PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES
Having recently had a trip a third as painful, all I can say is blood would have been shed if their experiences had happened to me. What makes the situations funny, besides the great writing and acting, is the fact that this is not happening to you.
The middle section of the film has them initially separating at the train station, but fate conspires to keep bringing them together.
PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES is the culmination of Hughes's 80s films that began with SIXTEEN CANDLES.
www.crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsP/f_planes_trains.html   (1059 words)

  
 Missed Shift: Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Seventeen hours by train, four by shuttle van and 26 by jet plane.
Then there is the waiting -- in airports, in line, in train stations, for bags, for shuttle vans again.
If the price of admission is being wedged in between a couple of loud, odorous individuals in a 747 for half a day, or being crammed into a smoke-filled train car for a few hours, so be it.
www.bikemag.com /columns/missed_shift/planes_trains_automobiles   (717 words)

  
 metroparent magazine : Planes, trains & automobiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the 1920s passenger trains were the way to go, accounting for 95 percent of all intercity travel.
A reasonably short plane trip east will land your family in the exciting historic city of Boston and near the shores of the peaceful Cape Cod Bay.
And a leisurely (but not slow) train trip to Los Angeles introduces parents and children to a form of travel few of us experience anymore.
www.metroparentmagazine.com /features/mar05/305581.asp   (336 words)

  
 Planes, Trains and Automobiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"Trains and steamboats, and later, automobiles and airplanes, were at once novel, awesome, fearsome and liberating, engaging not only by virtue of their mechanical ingenuity, power and scale, but also through the romantic associations of speed, distance and adventure that clung to them.
"Planes, Trains and Automobiles" discusses the implications of transportation imagery, tracing its characteristics and the evolution of the transportation revolution as recorded in children's literature from the mid-19th century to the present.
"Planes, Trains and Automobiles" will be on view in the Department of Special Collections in Regenstein Library through July 10.
chronicle.uchicago.edu /950413/planes.shtml   (496 words)

  
 Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is basically your worst case traveling scenario.
The plane is diverted to Wichita, where Del offers to share a hotel room with Neil for the night when Neil has no luck finding one himself.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a wonderful film that is written amazingly well.
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 ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ (R)
Which is sort of what this movie's all about -- the horror of modern travel, especially if you had planned to be on time.
In the case of John Hughes' "Planes, Trains and Automobiles," it's a Thanksgiving appointment.
And starting with the cramped elbow-jostling in the plane, Page must room, phone, eat, cab, drink, hitch, train and you-name-it with Griffith.
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 Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Goofs: Continuity: While sitting and waiting for a ride to the train station, Neal is wearing fl snow boots, when throughout the film he is always wearing dress shoes.
Of course this Laurel and Hardy pair cross paths and from here on out Neil's simple task of getting home to his family for Thanksgiving is going to be a journery from hell.
Then they are delayed because of weather problems and what do you know, they end up spending the night together in not only the same hotel, not only the same room but the same bed.
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 Planes, Trains and Automobiles Movie with Steve Martin, John Candy @ The 80's Movies Rewind -- Home of 80s Movies
Despite the four-letter words, Planes, Trains and Automobiles is loaded with laughs and is also a fun family movie.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles was one of the most successful movies of the careers of Steve Martin, John Candy and director John Hughes.
Road trip movie that it is, Planes Trains and Automobiles was filmed across the country from New York to California.
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 Planes Trains Automobiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As the plane landed and was coming to a stop at Washington National, a lone voice came over the loudspeaker: "Whoa, big fella.
The pilot tries to pull up, but with all their cargo, the plane is too heavy.
Suddenly, from the rear of the plane, an elderly man in the uniform of an Air Force General is seen slowly walking forward up the aisle.
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 Education World ® - Lesson Planning: Planes and Trains and Automobiles … and Study Skills!
For more than 100 years, trains were the fastest way to travel from place to place in the United States.
Today, if all the world's train tracks were laid out end to end, they'd stretch more than 800,000 miles.
Then click on "Let's Go!" (If students don't know the location of the nearest Amtrak station, all they need to do is to type their zip code into the Zip Code search engine.) A new screen will appear.
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 Planes, Trains & Automobiles News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
IT was a case of Planes, Trains and Automobiles for MP Andrew Rosindell this week as his journey to the annual Conservative Party conference in Blackpool turned into a nightmare.
She's Having a Baby is a pleasant comedy, but PTA is an absolute gem and one of the 1980s' most overlooked movies, a mixture of human drama and dizzying...
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles Midwest Odyssey Planes, Trains and Automobiles New York City.
One of the few movies set around Thanksgiving, it was bound to become a perennial favorite -- and the fact that this is probably 80's teen-movie king John Hughes's most adult movie certainly helped it become an instant classic.
Very nearly heartbreaking is the small scene in which Del places a framed photo of his wife -- he always travels with it -- on a motel bedside table so that he can sleep near her.
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 Planes, Trains and Automobiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Once aboard, the 12-hour train ride passed through some of the most beautiful land in southern Africa.
Every so often the train would overheat in the middle of, what is known as, "the Bush," an area that is seemingly without any sign of human life for miles.
Not five minutes later, after stopping, a crowd of young Africans would storm the windows of the train, wide-eyed with hands out for donation.
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 DVD Review: Planes, Trains and Automobiles
In the first of a series of misses, he loses the taxi he was going to catch, then the plane that he's trying to take home gets re-routed to Wichita, KS.
In the middle of it all, he's been paired up with Del(John Candy), a shower ring salesman who talks too much, but is generally one of those guys who's too nice to tell to shut up.
The two suffer through what seems to be nearly the complete "traveler's nightmare"; the plane is re-routed, they find themselves sharing a small hotel room; car-trouble and more.
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 Planes, Trains and Automobiles
We finish our beer and head out into the windy Chicago night, thankful for those two cabbies (and their pal) who thought rush-hour traffic was a real drag.
Trains criss and cross overhead, and I quickly surmise that they are running in one continous loop around this part of town.
It would appear that someone riding the train could raise a toast, turn a tight corner and clink glasses with someone hanging out a downtown window.
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 Planes, Trains and Automobiles Comprehensive Movie Review
Were it not for the profanity-laden opening scenes, John Hughes' Planes, Trains and Automobiles might have been suitable family entertainment: certainly it's heaps less violent and mean than Hughes' Home Alone.
A sudden snowstorm in Chicago forces the plane to land in Wichita.
Accompanied by Griffith, Paige resorts to traveling by train, by bus and by automobile, before finally making it back while hitchhiking in the refrigerated section of a meat semi tractor trailer.
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 Planes, Trains and Automobiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a film about everything we don't want to happen around the holidays but pretty much does in one way or another.
But their journey is about to snowball into the trip from Hell, experiencing everything from having to share the same bed at the hotel to mechanical failure on the train home.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is blessed with a cast upon which generating laughs is relied, and in working with Hughes's alternately sweet and biting screenplay, both help to create a truly hilarious comedy in the end.
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 Planes Trains And Automobiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Planes, Trains & Automobiles - Part 2
Mind you we had a plane on the ground, but nothing could land in Milwaukee.
See, we were flying on a regional jet, so we were just walking out to the plane.
So now we're on the plane, but we have to wait for it to be fueled.
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 Just the Arti-FACTS - Planes, Trains & Automobiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The inventor of American Flyer trains, William Hafner, was a native Chicagoan whose Hafner and Company started manufacturing windup cars in 1900.
In 1907 he received a $15,000 order for four types of cast-iron windup trains and American Flyer was born.
They began making electric trains in 1918, and in 1925 they added large "wide gauge" trains.
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 Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
A few minutes later, standing beside row 13, looking at E, which was in the middle on the right side of the plane facing the cockpit, his disbelieving eyes looked into sparkling blue ones that peered up from a smiling, familiar face.
Twenty minutes later found them on the platform of the train station, their luggage checked in and Jim in the process of completing the purchase of their tickets as the train pulled into the station.
As others got to their feet and began speculating, the detective sighed, shook his head to restore the feeling of balance when his ears went back to normal, and sat slumped against the window.
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 Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
Without effort they project the essence of their roles -- Candy is a natural slob while Martin is retentive enough to disappear entirely.
The script which links the various travel-disaster tales together is equally excellent, placing the duo in a variety of uncomfortable positions and letting them squirm.
Such jokes are generally simple and well-used but this isn't a problem; Planes, Trains & Automobiles works and that's all that matters.
www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Planes_Trains.html   (543 words)

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