(John Hughes, US 1987, 93 min., DCP)
As marketing executive Neal Page (Steve Martin) attempts to get home for Thanksgiving, his plans seems to be foiled at every turn by shower curtain–ring salesman Del Griffith (John Candy), who also happens to be traveling back to Chicago. After Neal is bumped from first class (and seated next to Del) and heavy snow diverts the flight to Wichita, the two have little choice but to team up and rent a car to drive back home. The situation worsens as the two travelers share too much time and too little space, and they begin to wonder if they’ll ever make it back to Chicago alive.
DCP from Paramount Pictures via Swank.
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Holidays Released in the summer of 1947, Miracle on 34th Street has nonetheless grown into a perennial favorite, bridging the season from Thanksgiving to Christmas. When the Santa Clause hired for the end of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade turns up drunk, a jolly, bearded man named Kris (Edmund Gwenn) volunteers for the job.