By Steve Dollar
What do people do after ingesting a massive holiday dinner with assorted friends and relatives, many of whom have traveled thousands of miles through crowded highways and airports to spend a few hours communing with their loved ones?
As many Americans will do Thursday when they celebrate Thanksgiving, they’ll kick back and watch a movie (before or after the various Major Sporting Events of the day). And there’s a good chance the movie will boast a holiday theme, since it’s one thing everyone can relate to. For all the hearty folks heading from here to there during the next few weeks, here’s our Top 5 movies for holiday travelers.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Everything that can go wrong will go wrong in this classic John Hughes comedy. An ode to roadbound misadventure, it stars Steve Martin at his flappable best as an uptight advertising executive. Absurdly cheerful goofus John Candy is his catastrophic companion, a shower-curtain-ring salesman who derails him on a zig-zagging journey home from New York to Chicago by way of…Wichita? While taking every mode of transport at hand, each man discovers that the other isn’t exactly who they seem to be. When wheels fail them, an unexpected friendship prevails.