Planes Trains and Automobiles remains the quintessential Thanksgiving film

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles combines all the things that make the holiday great, just not in schmaltzy, conventional ways. The movie is from the mind of John Hughes, already famous in 1987 as the director of teenage angst and adventure. His credits to this point included Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Weird Science, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. As a result, it might’ve been a tough sell for him to make a movie that had next to no teenagers anywhere to be seen. Nevertheless, he did have one movie in his catalog that made him more than qualified for such an undertaking: The first National Lampoon’s Vacation movie.

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