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By Ryan Cracknell (408) for Movie Views (286) on 06 Aug 2003

Planes, Trains and Automobiles showed that Hughes wasn't in fact some man-child searching for the reasons for his adulthood discontentment…

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By R.l. Shaffer (301) for IGN (1,013) on 08 May 2003

The story itself is timeless and almost always funny…

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By Mike Mcgranaghan (1,821) for Aisle Seat (1,783) on 07 Mar 2003

A comic masterpiece that never goes out of style…

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By Cathy Burke (83) for United Press International (113) on 04 Jun 2002

The film barrels along with a bumbling zeal, but it's comedy at its most predictable…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 01 Jan 2000

It is perfectly cast and soundly constructed, and all else flows naturally. Steve Martin and John Candy don't play characters; they embody themselves…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 01 Jan 2000

It's the pathos under the boisterous, noisy comedy that helps fuel its continuing popularity today…

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By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 01 Jan 2000

Hughes has written and directed (he also produced) a perfectly balanced comedy that squeezes every last laugh out of a concept so simple you…

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By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 21 Mar 1999

There are many periods when the two men are traveling and you feel the need to fast-forward the movie to another scene…

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By Johanna Steinmetz (72) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 21 Feb 1997

What a relief! John Hughes has decided to quit being the patron saint of sniveling teens and to turn his sympathetic gaze on sniveling adults…

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By Jason Diamond (1) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 20 Jun 1994

Planes, Trains and Automobiles is the ultimate Thanksgiving film: John Hughes understood that it's all about the buildup…

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By Janet Maslin (949) for The New York Times (9,847) on 09 Aug 1993

Mr. Martin and Mr. Candy are an easy twosome to watch even with marginal material, though, and the film is never worse than slow…

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