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• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: August 7, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000PHX5R8
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #60,086 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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PLAINS, TRAINS, & AUTOMOBILES: Neal Page is an advertising executive who just wants to fly home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his family. But all Neal Page gets is misery. Misery named Del Griffith - a loud mouthed, but nevertheless loveable, salesman who leads Neal on a cross-country, wild goose chase that keeps Neal from tasting his turkey. Steve Martin (Neal) and John Candy (Del) are absolutely wonderful as two guys with a knack for making the worst of a bad situation. If it's painful, funny, or just plain crazy, it happens to Neal and Del in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Every traveler's nightmare in a comedy-come-true! SUMMER RENTAL: This routine comedy is about a series of misadventures during a family vacation at the beach and stars John Candy (who died of a heart attack while filming in Mexico in 1994) as John Chester and Karen Austin as his long-suffering wife Sandy. When the family leave for what turns out to be a pretty decrepit shack on a public beach, Jack eventually locks horns with the owner of this dubious piece of real estate, and their conflict terminates in a boat race in which Jack and his motley crew are at first glance, and even second, no match for the others in the race. In the meantime, there are plenty of skits with Jack dressed as anything from an ample, unintentional likeness of a geisha to the normal tourist dude in a Hawaiian shirt. His wife and daughter tackle their own problems, related to sex in one way or another, mostly another. FOUL PLAY: "Beware of the Dwarf," whispers the hitchhiker to the beautiful librarian (Goldie Hawn) as he dies midway through a screening of This Gun Is Mine. Suddenly, Hawn is propelled into a world of wild chases, bizarre attempts on her life, and deadly encounters with an assortment of weird underworld characters. Academy Award winner Hawn teams with Chevy Chase (in his first starring motion picture assignment) - and with hilarious results. Chase plays the handsome San Francisco detective who becomes personally and professionally involved with all the off things happening to Hawn. Costarring a pre-Arthur Dudley Moore in one of his most delightful comic turns.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Beware of the Dwarf!", January 19, 2008

By	Randy E. Halford "Comedy Fan" (Boise, ID) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Three terrific comedies are packaged here from Paramount Studios.
First up: "Planes, Trains & Automobiles", writer-director John Hughes' exercise in incompatability and discomfort as two travelers--uptight ad exec Neal Page (Steve Martin) and obnoxious lovable slob/shower-ring curtain salesman Del Griffith (John Candy)--are thrown together through comic circumstances before Thanksgiving. Page wants nothing more than to get home for some turkey; instead, his travel plans are derailed at every turn, saddling him (and to his irritation, having to rely on him) with Griffith. There are some beautifully played-out comedy scenes, courtesy of Martin & Candy. But the real surprise is how they handle the more tense & frayed dramatic scenes. They learn as they go along to become better people, with Martin's character--repulsed, humiliated and rather snobbish--clashing with Candy's lower-class character, who's just yearning to be understood. A great holiday comedy about human nature and why "we can't all just get along".
"Summer Rental" tries to graduate up-and-coming comedy star Candy into a leading role. It's a pleasant but otherwise small-time, by-the-numbers comedy, obviously inspired by the success of "National Lampoon's Vacation" (which, coincidentally, Candy briefly appears). Playing a stressed-out air traffic controller, he packs up the family for a summertime excursion. Except it's anything but relaxing as Candy must suffer through all kinds of headaches--sunburns, lifeguards flirting with his teenage daughter, his beach house being a "main highway" for vacationers to get to an overcrowded beach, and clashes with a high-class jerk of a landlord, played wonderfully nasty by Richard Crenna. Halfway through the movie, Candy befriends a crusty but amiable old salt (the terrific Rip Torn) who runs a seafood restaurant (out of the remnants of his boat). Thus, a showdown between tenant & landlord is inevitable, with Candy using the old boat to challenge Crenna during a sailing competition. What is otherwise a routine comedy is brightened by Candy's likability as lead and given breezy direction by comedy veteran Carl Reiner.
"Foul Play" brings SNL alumni Chevy Chase to the big screen, wisely hitching his wagon to one of Hollywood's brightest stars, Goldie Hawn, for this irrevent comedy about a plot to assassinate the Pope during a San Francisco visit. This mystery-suspense-comedy manages to make a routine genre fun to watch as it introduces odd twists, weird characters and offbeat laughs. Hawn's character is a bright but sheltered librarian who becomes hopelessly entangled in the evil plan. Chase is the police detective who finds himself protecting Hawn while becoming romantically involved. Hawn is charming as a slightly ditzy but endearing damsel-in-distress; Chase make a good first impression, walking the fine line between sarcastic bumbler and leading man. Burgess Meredith is wonderful as Hawn's kindly landlord (watch for the highlight where he uses self-defense/karate to battle a baddie). But it's Dudley Moore that nearly steals the film (he launched his solo career with this movie) as loser/swinger Stanley, making every sporadic scene he appears in hilarious.
No extras are included with this package, but the films themselves are crisply transferred to DVD format. You just can't go wrong with this collection!

5.0 out of 5 stars Planes, Trains and Automobiles, September 12, 2009

By	Mitchell S. Friedman "Taxheart" (Walnut Creek, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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John Hughes' adult saga that mimics "The Out-of-Towners". Still, it has a warm hewar and will get you every time.

5.0 out of 5 stars Foul Play and Trains Planes and Automobiles, March 29, 2009

By	Casia K. Holmgren - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have received these movies but haven't had a chance to take them out of the packaging yet. These two are great movies -- very funny. I especially like Foul Play with Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn.