Martin and Candy together is really the kind of pairing people dream of.
And for Hughes, it was the beginning of a new phase in his own career as well.
For one reason or another, there aren’t just that many films centered around the turkeycentric November holiday.
The whole movie is about Neal getting home so he can enjoy the day with his family.
It’s fair to say that Planes doesn’t fit comfortably into the John Hughes filmography: It’s a road trip movie, a buddy comedy and his first attempt at a holiday movie.
It’s not so much that Dutch is a bad movie; more that Hughes had already made a better version a few years later.
It all leads to that moment, and that’s why Planes, Trains and Automobiles remains the ultimate Thanksgiving film: John Hughes understood that it’s all about the buildup. »
