Planes, Trains and Automobiles What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey. Release date: 1987-11-26 Genres: Comedy Actors: Larry Hankin, Dylan Baker, Richard Herd, Matthew Lawrence, Bill Erwin, Charles Tyner, George Petrie, Susan Isaacs, Nicholas Wyman, Kevin Bacon, Olivia Burnette, Gary Riley, Ben Stein, Diana Douglas, Michael McKean, Troy Evans, Steve Martin, Martin Ferrero, Gaetano Lisi, Laila Robins, Susan Kellermann, John Candy, Edie McClurg, Carol Bruce, Lyman Ward, Ruth de Sosa, William Windom, George Sasaki, David Raiport, Diana Castle, John Randolph Jones, Andrew J. Hentz, Karen Meisinger, Grant Forsberg, Gary Palmer, Julie H. Morgan, Kim Genelle, Lulie Newcomb Budget: $15,000,000Revenue: $49,500,000 Runtime: 1 h. 33 min. Score: 7.2/10 Votes: 2,037 Countries: United States of America Companies: Paramount Pictures, Hughes Entertainment Available* : Overview: 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.