Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Released Date, Rating, Genre, Cast

IMDb

Released Date

November 25, 1987

Distributor

Paramount Pictures

Genre

Comedy

Rating

Worldwide Gross

Domestic Gross + International Gross = Worldwide Gross
$49,530,280 + $0 = $49,530,280

Cast

Kevin Bacon, John Candy, Steve Martin, Matthew Lawrence, Larry Hankin, Michael McKean, Edie McClurg, Dylan Baker, Bill Erwin, Olivia Burnette, Laila Robins

Kevin Bacon

as Taxi Racer

1950-1994

John Candy

as Del Griffith

Steve Martin

as Neal Page

Matthew Lawrence

as Neal Page, Jr.

Larry Hankin

as Doobie

Michael McKean

as State Trooper

Edie McClurg

as Car Rental Agent

Dylan Baker

as Owen

1914-2010

Bill Erwin

as Man on Plane

Olivia Burnette

as Marti Page

Laila Robins

as Susan Page

About Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving with a lovable oaf of a shower curtain ring salesman as his only companion.

About

Neal Page, a high-strung marketing executive, is attempting to go home for Thanksgiving and everything goes wrong, including meeting the overly-optimistic, talkative, and clumsy shower curtain ring salesman who joins him.

Trivia

John Hughes wrote, produced, and directed the film. The movie was filmed in and around Illinois.