American Film

DRAG YOURSELF HOME

Are you going home for Thanksgiving?  Exactly 25 years ago this month Neal Page (Steve Martin) tried to make it back to Chicago to spend the holiday with his family in writer-director John Hughes’ PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES (1987). Fasten your seatbelt for our Screen Test and see if you can unscramble the eight means of transportation listed below and drag them into the correct order in which they were used in the film. PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES co-starred John Candy as an annoying blabbermouth with a heart of gold. Happy trails!

Note: The boxes will turn green when the answer is correct; red, when incorrect.  Keep trying like Steve Martin!  You'll get there!

Bus
5
Taxicab
1
Rental Car
6
Plane
2
Elevated Train
8
Train
4
Car
3
Semi-Truck
7
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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No airline, railroad, rental car or bus company agreed to participate in making PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES lest they be identified with delays, cancellations, lost luggage and worse. The solution? Film crews rented 20 miles of railroad tracks and refurbished old railway cars; an airline terminal was built from scratch; designers created a rental car company logo and uniforms; and 250 cars were rented for a single scene.