Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a 1987 American
comedy film written, produced and directed by
John Hughes. The film stars
Steve Martin as Neal Page, a high-strung marketing executive, who meets Del Griffith, played by
John Candy, an eternally optimistic, outgoing, overly talkative, and clumsy shower
curtain ring salesman who seems to live in a world governed by a different set of rules. They share a three-day odyssey of misadventures trying to get Neal home to Chicago from New York City in time for
Thanksgiving dinner with his family.