What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.
An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.
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Character
Comic, classical in form, effortless and resolved.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Steve MartinNeal Page
- John CandyDel Griffith
- Laila RobinsSusan Page
- Michael McKeanState Trooper
- Dylan BakerOwen
- Kevin BaconTaxi Racer
- Olivia BurnetteMarti Page
- Carol BruceJoy Page
- Diana DouglasPeg
- Martin FerreroMotel Clerk
Crew
- John HughesDirector
- John HughesScreenplay
- Donald PetermanDirector of Photography
- Ira NewbornOriginal Music Composer
- Paul HirschEditor
- John HughesProducer
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