Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Scored from 442 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
A high-strung businessman and a cheerful salesman are forced to team up after flights are cancelled due to Thanksgiving week weather. Stranded far from home, they must navigate planes, trains, automobiles, and other improvised methods to reach Chicago, leading to a mismatched buddy journey filled with mishaps and growing camaraderie.
Planes, Trains & Automobiles is a 1987 comedy and drama film. John Hughes directed it, with Steve Martin, John Candy and Laila Robins in the cast. It runs 1h 33m and carries an R certificate. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy. It was made in the United States.
442 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 454 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 5,296 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
Is Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) worth watching?
- Cohort
- Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
- Calibrated reviewers
- 442
Cohort: Films · 1980s
