Planes, Trains and Automobiles-1987

Neal Page (Steve Martin-The Jerk, Three Amigos, The Man with Two Brains, Dead Men Wear Plaid) is pitching a sales job and when finished must travel home for the holidays. He plans his flight for right after the meeting and hopes to make it in time. Unfortunately, NY traffic totally bites.

Del Griffith (John Candy-Summer Rental, Volunteers, Uncle Buck) is also in NY and must travel back to Chicago. 

There are no two people polar opposites than these. The well gathered, conservative, traditional Page is no match for the slovenly, happy go lucky Griffith. It seems no matter what happens, their luck keeps getting worse. 

Follow the fun as they live adventure by adventure while trying to beat the clock. Thanksgiving is getting closer, but can these two strangers become friends in spite of sabotaging their chances of getting home?

Watch the fights, the fires, the theft, the creative travel, and especially deer in a very hilarious story.

Great quotes include:

Neal: Del... Why did you kiss my ear?
Del: Why are you holding my hand?
Neal:Where's your other hand?
Del: Between two pillows...
Neal: Those aren't pillows!
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a great adventure and totally gnarly John Hughes movie. It's almost fit for the entire family except for the 5 minute F-Bomb exchange at the car rental counter.

Weird Science

Weird Science is a classic 80s teen angst movie with mega opportunities to get inside the character’s heads. But, what else would you expect of a John Hughes movie. Especially with the alumnus Anthony Michael Hall (Breakfast Club, Vacation, Sixteen Candles).

Hall plays Gary Wallace and Ilan Mitchell Smith (The Wild Life) plays Wyatt. Together they are two spazes who don’t seem to fit in anywhere. No friends other than each other and only fantasies for girlfriends, they follow the course and do what any red blooded American boys would do; they create their own girlfriend. Now they are on top of the world and The Dudes to know. But, such fame comes with a price.

Kelly LeBrock plays Lisa, the bogus duo’s creation. Instead of following any lame orders, Lisa takes over their plans and their future of spectacular popularity in a “model knows best” role. She takes them to the right clubs, the best parties, dresses them in awesome clothes and puts them in righteous cars (Ferrari and Porsche). On their way to instant popularity, they have to learn a few lessons and stand up to parents, bad guys, bikers and rogues.

Weird Science also stars Robert Downey Jr., Bill Paxton and an incredibly young cast of future Hollywood heroes.

Incredible dialog includes:

Wallace describing the woman he wants to create:

“I want her to live. I want her to breath. I want her to aerobicize.”

Eightees culture includes All Dave All the Time with David Lee Roth, DataLife 3x5 floppy disks, references to Phil Donahue, and the Memotech computer. The classic battle of computer geniuses is well captured as Wyatt battles the Air Force for computer energy dominance over the dial up modem connection.

I rate this movie four alligators for great theme, cast and Oingo Boingo’s theme song of the same title.

Bad language and brief nudity gives this movie a PG-13 rating.