Really wish I hadn't seen Due Date first, as it's a carbon copy of this movie. (Also because it's not very good.) I also wish this had held up better.Neal Page (Steve Martin) is a marketing executive in New York City trying to get home to his family in Chicago for the Thanksgiving weekend. Through a series of misfortunes, he ends up repeatedly thrown together with Del Griffith (John Candy), a traveling shower curtain ring salesman with a sunny personality and zero sense of personal space. The two men end up on a cross-country road trip by plane, bus, cab, and rental car as everything that could possibly go wrong does.
I get the message it was trying to convey, about learning to listen to people who are very different in order to find empathy, and that is admirable. But everything else about these two men is the worst. Neal is an entitled douchebag and Del refuses to take responsibility for any of his faults. They are both assholes. Forced interaction with an extrovert is in my top three ideas of Hell but I would also include spending any amount of time with either of these characters.
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