Before director John Hughes perfected his signature child-like nostalgic style with Home Alone, he wrote and directed this Steve Martin and John Candy masterclass in Odyssean buddy movie antics. Candy and Martin’s oil-and-water adults can’t help but act like innocent and spoiled children as they try, mostly at odds with each other, to make it home for Thanksgiving dinner.
“The movies that last, the ones we return to, don’t always have lofty themes or Byzantine complexities. Sometimes they last because they are arrows straight to the heart.” — Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times
“A warm, mature offering from Hughes, with Martin’s restraint a perfect counterpoint to Candy’s enormous (and enormously amusing) fooling around.” — Gavin Bainbridge, Empire Magazine
directed by
John Hughes
John Hughes
written by
John Hughes
John Hughes
with
Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins
Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins