'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' Is the Perfect Thanksgiving Movie
John Candy and Steve Martin's holiday classic is as heartwarming as it is hilarious.
By James Charisma
When it comes to Christmas, there's no limit to the number of films Hollywood studios will churn out to celebrate America’s favorite holiday. This year alone, audiences can look forward to four releases over the next few weeks: The Star, a CGI children’s film about the birth of Jesus told from the animals’s perspective; The Man Who Invented Christmas, starring Christopher Plummer as Charles Dickens while he wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843; and Christmas-themed sequels to Bad Moms and Daddy’s Home.
But Thanksgiving still belongs to a single film released 30 years ago this week: John Hughes’s Planes, Trains and Automobiles, starring Steve Martin as a high-strung advertising exec just trying to get home for the holidays and John Candy as a boisterous, talkative traveling salesman trying to help.
