What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.
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.
$15,000,000
$49,500,000
November 26, 1987
Paramount Pictures, Hughes Entertainment
40 people
Steve Martin
Neal Page
Acting
John Candy
Del Griffith
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Laila Robins
Susan Page
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Michael McKean
State Trooper
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Dylan Baker
Owen
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Kevin Bacon
Taxi Racer
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Olivia Burnette
Marti Page
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Carol Bruce
Joy Page
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Diana Douglas
Peg
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Martin Ferrero
Motel Clerk
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Larry Hankin
Doobie
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Richard Herd
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