What would you do if you were trying to get home in time for Thanksgiving from a business trip in none other than the Big Apple? Well, that’s what one man asks himself in the 1987 film Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

Neal Page is trying to return to his family for Thanksgiving in Chicago after being on a business trip in New York. His journey is doomed from the outset — with Del Griffith, a travelling salesman, interfering first by leaving his trunk by the side of the road, causing Neal to trip when racing a man for a cab, then moments later again by inadvertently snatching the taxi ride...