First of all he loses his cab in New York rush hour to Candy who unwittingly steals it from him, then he is bumped from first class and ends up sitting next to Candy on the plane. Of course this Laurel and Hardy pair cross paths and from here on out Neil's simple task of getting home to his family for Thanksgiving is going to be a journey from hell. He is too much of a slob to really be a corporate sales guy.
He is the kind of man that you know is good at sales, but on a lower level. This is a man that carries a giant trunk around with him and is a constant chatter box. He is a jolly man, much like Santa Clause but without the beard and the old age. But he is never home and for all of his success professionally, it is the kind of family that although is together now, it may not survive the fast approaching 90's if Neil Page continues his ways. He lives in a huge house, much like the one in Home Alone and Weird Science, and his family is a beautiful one that consists of a lovely wife and three kids. He is a work-a-holic and his lifestyle is that of many John Hughes family men that live in suburbia Chicago. He is Neil Page and he is played with perfect smugness by Steve Martin. is a film about one man trying to get home for the American Thanksgiving. He will be missed but at least we have great roles like this to remember him by. It was a shame to see his career cut short because even in his bad films he was good. I think Douglas won that year for Wall Street and he deserved to but Candy was brilliant in this film. If there was any justice in the Academy ( and we all know that is an oxymoron, Academy and justice ) then Candy would have at least been nominated for best actor in 1987. But of all the films that Candy did, including Stripes, I don't think he has ever been as good and as funny as he was in here. John Hughes and John Candy went on to develop what I can only surmise was quite the friendship because Candy appeared in many Hughes films either as the star ( this one, Uncle Buck, Great Outdoors ) or with a cameo ( Home Alone, Vacation and a few others that I can't think of right now, but check the IMDb and you'll see that he did ). Never was his talent on display better than it was in this film.
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