Event Film and Video Screenings Planes, Trains And Automobiles (Paramount, 1987 – Rated R*)

Date and Location

  • When: Saturday, November 17, 2018

    7:30 pm - 9:30 pm EST

  • Where: National Audio-Visual Conservation Center - Packard Campus Theater

    19053 Mount Pony Road, Culpeper, VA 22701-7551

All Packard Campus screenings are free and seating is on a walk-in basis. Learn more about the Packard Campus Theater

For more information, please call 202-707-9994. Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

After his flight home to Chicago has been cancelled due to bad weather, high-strung marketing executive Neal Page (Steve Martin) runs into one disaster after another while trying to get home to his family for Thanksgiving, which includes being stuck with loquacious traveling salesman Del Griffith (John Candy) as his unshakable traveling companion. Written, produced, and directed by John Hughes, the comedy was a widely noticed change in the repertoire of the filmmaker who up until that time was known for his popular coming-of-age teen movies such as “Sixteen Candles” (1984), “The Breakfast Club” (1985) and “Ferris Bueller's Day Off” (1986).  “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” was greeted with critical acclaim and stayed in the top ten box office hits for seven weeks. 35mm archival print. *No one under the age of 17 will be admitted without a parent or guardian.

Color, 93 min.

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