Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: Welcome to five Minute Film Finder, brought to you by Pioneer Library System.
Hello and welcome to another episode of five Minute Film Finder.
Today we're bringing you a deep focus.
I'm Ben and I'm joined by Darren.
So today we are delving into I think a lot of people's favorite Thanksgiving movie.
[00:00:31] Speaker A: Yeah, like I feel like it's a pretty big tradition for a lot of people.
I. It's not personally a tradition of mine. I don't have a Thanksgiving movie. Like, like I have a Christmas.
[00:00:40] Speaker B: I've never thought of a Thanksgiving movie before. But like this is definitely a movie I watched as a child.
We were watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Trains and automobiles from 1987.
So I guess we should start off.
Did you like this movie? Do you love this movie?
[00:01:00] Speaker A: I did like this movie.
[00:01:01] Speaker B: Do you have a relationship with this movie?
[00:01:03] Speaker A: I do not.
We talked about it a little bit.
I've seen it a few times. I don't watch it regularly. It's been quite a while since I'd watched it. I probably haven't watched it in 15 or 20 years. I'd say same here. Yeah. You know, so seeing it as an adult was definitely different. Like a grown old person adult.
You know, some of the things played differently. I definitely saw John Candy's character in a different light.
[00:01:34] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:01:34] Speaker A: Than I did as a 20 year old or whatever.
[00:01:36] Speaker B: It. It is interesting how that shifts, especially like movies from this era. Like there's a lot of that kind of character and like where you'll. As an adult you're like, oh, there.
[00:01:51] Speaker A: Were some problems there.
[00:01:52] Speaker B: Right. Yeah, yeah.
So let's get into some background before we start immediately getting into the nitty gritty.
So I'll go ahead and read the IMDb synopsis of our movie. It is a Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving with a lovable oath of a shower curtain ring salesman as his only companion.
I mean that pretty succinct.
[00:02:20] Speaker A: It's spot on.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: As far as IMDb descriptions go. That's pretty good.
This is a John Hughes movie, which I think is an important thing to mention.
[00:02:30] Speaker A: And yeah, and it's interesting for him because it was. I don't know if it's his fur. What one of his biggest movies that wasn't a teenage comedy.
[00:02:39] Speaker B: This is immediately leaving his teenage comedy era. So we can quickly go through his, his filmography real fast.
So one of his first big movies he didn't direct, but he wrote that he kind of put him on the scene was Vacation.
And then it jumps right into his. His teenage era of 16 Candles, 84, Breakfast Club in 85, Weird Science in 85, Ferris Bueller's Day off in 86.
So, like, he was just putting out hit after hit of teenage teen movies. Comedies, like, very much, like, kind of defined the era year after year.
[00:03:19] Speaker A: Like, oh, here's another John Hughes teen movie. Here's another, like, that was very definitive.
[00:03:23] Speaker B: Absolutely. And has kind of framed how a lot of people, like, talk about teen movies from the 80s. It is like you're talking about.
[00:03:34] Speaker A: You're talking about John Hughes or somebody else.
[00:03:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
So it is interesting how the shift from teen movies to adult subject matter in this one kind of uses his strengths differently. It's.
I feel like, a lot lighter on its feet for most of the movie.
John Hughes movies, like, I feel, like, vacillate between, like, being dramatic and very funny. Like, pretty, like, evenly across the movie.
[00:04:09] Speaker A: You'Ll get those, like, cut scenes. So, like, Breakfast Club is a pretty good example. Like, the dancing scene, like, you get those interesting cuts in where they're doing weird stuff. Very much that's a comedy, teen comedy movie stuff. But then also, like, you know, very much a.
The. The depth of feelings. He explores those earnest and.
[00:04:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:27] Speaker A: Explores those things very well.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: And in this movie, like, it's a little less, like, evenly paced in that way. It kind of, like, is like, chunk. Chunk. Chunk of, like, big, solid comedy. Chunk little bit of drama. Big, solid comedy. Chunk little bit of drama.
It is. So are you a Steve Martin or a John Candy guy?
[00:04:51] Speaker A: I. I loved John Candy.
[00:04:53] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:04:54] Speaker A: I never really got Steve Martin. Okay.
Like, one of my brother's favorite movies is the Jerk.
[00:04:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:00] Speaker A: And when I was growing up and stuff like that, I just. I never really. There was never any of his movies that clung to me the way that John Candy's movies did.
[00:05:09] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:05:09] Speaker A: Uncle Buck and the Great Outdoors, Some of my favorites ever.
[00:05:13] Speaker B: Absolutely.
It was really nice rewatching this movie, actually, because it reminded me how much I enjoyed John Candy. Like, I kind of. I. I think because it had been so long since he'd been in his prime era of, like, when he was alive and putting out movies that I forgot. Like. Oh, yeah, he's in some of my favorite childhood movies. Like, I think we can just, like.
[00:05:36] Speaker A: Go over some things, get him to movie after movie.
[00:05:38] Speaker B: Yeah. He made so many movies, but just around the time that he was making this, Armed and dangerous in 86, Little Shop of Horrors in 86, also with Steve Martin, Spaceballs in 87.
She's having a baby in 88 and the great outdoors in 90 or 91.
So, like, he's just making tons of movies.
He's just such a nice character. Like, even in this character where he's supposed to be annoying and dumb.
[00:06:11] Speaker A: An oaf like that.
[00:06:12] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, an oaf. Like, you can't help but just, like, be like.
[00:06:17] Speaker A: But he's just as Steve Martin, such a good guy. Like, just as Steve Martin's character, Neil in this movie. Yeah, He's. He's charmed. Like, he sees that there is a good, honest heart in this man who keeps wrecking everything.
[00:06:34] Speaker B: Absolutely. Yeah.
I enjoyed their interplay in this movie so much because I don't like Steve Martin when he's being mean.
But there's. There's the growth there, which is kind of the perfect thing of like, oh, Steve Martin is mean, but then grows and has fun with this character. And like, the interplay between that is really nice to watch him do and like, to get to be from like a, like, uptight, like, serious guy who's just mad about the things that are going wrong to, like, loosen up and have fun with this other just kind of silly character who's very sweet and genuine is a nice journey to see.
[00:07:19] Speaker A: It takes him a while. Right. Like, it's definitely a struggle for him.
[00:07:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, one of the first. So should we break down the plot a little bit?
[00:07:29] Speaker A: Yeah, a little. Just to give some context, I think. Right. So you have Steve Martin's character, Neil, who's an ad marketing guy, and he's in the worst meeting you've ever seen at the beginning of this movie.
[00:07:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:42] Speaker A: And he just. He wants to get out of that meeting, go home to New York. That's his goal. That's how they start the movie.
Go home from New York to Chicago.
[00:07:49] Speaker B: Yeah. It's funny. It's also like a perfect, like, start the anxiety in the most calm way of like, I gotta be somewhere. And then, like. But you're stuck not doing anything. Like, you're stuck in this room just because this big boss guy staring at this photo.
[00:08:08] Speaker A: He's got, like, three magazine covers and.
[00:08:09] Speaker B: He'S, like, leaning back and, like, he.
[00:08:13] Speaker A: Opens his mouth three times to speak, doesn't say anything.
[00:08:15] Speaker B: Yeah. It just makes you go, please, please.
[00:08:19] Speaker A: Just gonzing.
[00:08:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:20] Speaker A: And that's the start of the movie. Like, you get the. You get the. The planes, trains, automobiles rolling at the start.
[00:08:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:27] Speaker A: And then boom, right into this silent boardroom scene where he's sitting there looking at his watch that they feature in the movie.
[00:08:33] Speaker B: Absolutely. And so it kind of just like sets it up of, like, okay, he's stressed. He's a serious person with a serious job. And you kind of just immediately get it from that. Of just like, okay, this is the version of Steve Martin you're getting, which is not the one that we're used to. Like, I mean, a little bit of his back catalog from this era. Okay. Leading up to this. Three amigos in 1986. One of my favorite movies from my childhood. Little Shop of horrors in 1986. Roxanne.
Right after this. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Probably my favorite Steve Martin movie. Parenthood and My Blue Heaven. So, like, he.
He was used to being so big and silly, and I feel like this was one of his more grounded. I'm not the big character roles.
[00:09:27] Speaker A: Yeah, he. He's not a typical straight man, like, he is in this movie. Like, he's very straight laced. And John Candy is the comedic foil in every scene, basically. Right.
[00:09:41] Speaker B: And, like, it's funny because, like, you're used to seeing John Candy. He always looks like John Candy, even though he's had so many looks throughout his movies. I.
So there's a really great oral history of this movie on Vanity Fair.
And there was a little bit of interview with his daughter talking about when he was getting ready for this movie.
He was so excited to work with John Hughes. It was his first time working with him, which he went on to make nine movies with him.
[00:10:12] Speaker A: Something, like, ridiculous.
[00:10:13] Speaker B: Yes. They became very good friends. But he was so excited. He was really thinking about his character. He was working on the facial hair to get it just right to be just the right kind of weird, annoying, avuncular oaf guy.
And that one day he was just like, he needs a perm. And so, like, they went and got a perm and dyed his hair darker. And he was just like, like, really taking so seriously, like, the kind of, like, guy that this character had to be. So I think everybody was kind of, like, in a different mode for this. So, like. And seeing that, like, kind of.
Okay, so, yeah, Steve Martin definitely has a different version of him to play off of. And, like, he put more into it than I think is typical characters.
[00:11:03] Speaker A: But.
[00:11:03] Speaker B: Yeah. So Steve Martin's trying to get home.
He chases after a cab racing with Kevin Bacon.
[00:11:12] Speaker A: Best scene in the whole movie, as far as I'm concerned. Kevin Bacon has no lines.
[00:11:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:16] Speaker A: Just a smile. Close up of his smile. That was so good. Yeah.
[00:11:19] Speaker B: I was watching the movie last night. I was like, Kevin Bacon's in this movie. I was like, no way that I just forgot that. I was like, okay. It's literally just this scene. Okay, great.
[00:11:29] Speaker A: 20 seconds or whatever of them running through New York to catch a cat.
[00:11:35] Speaker B: And then it's just classic trying to get somewhere comedy. Everything keeps going wrong.
Mrs. That cab, Mrs.
[00:11:45] Speaker A: The next cab. And basically that's the only thing that isn't John Candy's character. Dell. That's the only thing that isn't Del's fault is him missing that.
[00:11:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:52] Speaker A: That first cab.
Except he trips over the.
The trunk. So it is his fault.
[00:11:58] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: He doesn't know it's his fault yet.
[00:11:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:00] Speaker A: But everything else after this, he very clearly is blaming Del. John Katniss. He does realize after, after the fact that, yeah, everything has been his fault this entire time.
[00:12:10] Speaker B: Yeah. So, yeah.
[00:12:12] Speaker A: Kevin Bacon. How weird.
[00:12:13] Speaker B: Kevin Bacon. Yeah. And like he was in that oral history too. And he was just like such a fun movie to make. And I was just like, you just probably hung around because how fun it was to be.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: Exactly. You had a scene.
[00:12:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
But yeah. So moving on from there, they get to the airport, flight's delayed.
You're. It's, it's heavily implied, like, oh, this is a nightmare flying situation. There's weather, there's delays, there's rerouting.
He gets on the plane and immediately is like, I'm supposed to be in first class.
[00:12:50] Speaker A: They're like, and he's kind of a.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: Jerk as your coach seat.
[00:12:52] Speaker A: Yeah, he's kind of a jerk in the seat. Like, he's upset because he, you know, the delayed flight. Now he's getting bumped out of first class and he's been assigned a seat in college.
[00:13:01] Speaker B: Coach. Yeah.
[00:13:01] Speaker A: He's not, he's not happy.
[00:13:02] Speaker B: I like how they somehow make Steve Martin's character a high status but low class character.
And the reverse with John Candy of like an incredibly low status but high class.
[00:13:21] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:13:22] Speaker B: And that like, he is kind to everybody. He. He has a friend everywhere they go.
[00:13:26] Speaker A: Everywhere they go, he's got a. Another guy knows his name.
[00:13:29] Speaker B: Yeah. And everybody likes him, excited to see him. Everybody that Steve Martin interacts with immediately.
[00:13:35] Speaker A: Punches him in the face.
He gets punched in the face?
[00:13:38] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like kind of a perfect, like so kind of just constantly making that contrast known and kind of all that builds up until they get stranded in. Is it Wichita?
[00:13:52] Speaker A: Wichita. Yes. The flight is diverted from Chicago because of the storm and they end up in Wichita and the flight's going to be canceled. So they're Stuck.
No planes in Wichita.
[00:14:04] Speaker B: And John Candy, we should call them by their character name. So John Candy is Del.
Del knows a place where they can stay, and he knows a cabbie to get them there. And one of the wildest independent cabs that I've ever seen.
[00:14:19] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It had lift. Like, it was a low rider.
[00:14:24] Speaker B: Yeah. And so he gets in there.
They're like, okay, we got a room. And it's like, oh, it's one room. You have to share.
And this sets up what could have been a very problematic scene, but it's kind of handled as well as it can be in an 80s movie.
They fight with each other. They're getting on each other's nerves, as you can imagine. They become in a tighter and tighter orbit with each other to the point where they're just now cohabitating.
And Steve Martin eventually blows up at.
[00:14:59] Speaker A: Him, loses his cool. John Candy's making a bunch of noise in bed when he's like, del is clearing.
[00:15:06] Speaker B: I'm gonna snore all night if I don't clear my sinuses.
Such a sweet, innocent descriptor for what is genuinely horrible to hear next to you from a stranger.
[00:15:20] Speaker A: He. He's sleeping in bed with a straight.
And for me, of course, at this point, no way am I going in this room. What are you talking about? I'm gonna go in the hotel room with some guy I just met on a plane. Come on.
[00:15:32] Speaker B: And then Steve Martin's character, who. His name is Neil. Neil. Yeah. So he lays into him, and it's one of the meanest monologues. Just like.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: And it keeps going.
[00:15:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Picks him apart. Like, talks about every, like, facet of his personality that he knows so far of. Just, like, how he doesn't stop talking, how he has no awareness of. Of the person he's talking to's interest, how there's no point to his stories. They're like. They just end.
And it leads to, I think, a really sweet moment from John Candy just being earnest. And I feel.
And in some of the, like, interviews and I also watched the John Candy documentary that's on Amazon right now, and you heard a lot of people talk about that. Of, like, that came from a real place for him and kind of, like, changed his, like, kind of trajectory. Acting of like, people are like, oh, he can deliver.
[00:16:33] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, because he was. He looked crushed.
[00:16:37] Speaker B: Just. And, like, it was just his eyes watching and listening to Steve Martin just.
[00:16:43] Speaker A: Rambling on about how terrible this girl is. Right? Just rambling. And then you just switches back to John Candy's face and you just see it fall, like.
[00:16:51] Speaker B: Yeah. There's just a sinking in his eyes. And like. And then it finally gets to the point where he, he says, this is where they get the name from the documentary.
I like who I am or I like me.
It's. And it's so sweet because it's just like, there's nothing wrong with who you are just because it's not for somebody else.
And like.
And you can see that he kind of crushes.
[00:17:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:19] Speaker B: Like Del.
[00:17:21] Speaker A: Neil feels it when Del says this to him. Right?
[00:17:25] Speaker B: Yeah. He's like, oh, I am a jerk.
[00:17:27] Speaker A: And he's like, you see him sink and he slowly takes his hat off or puts his hat back on the shelf and like, crawls back into the bed. And.
[00:17:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
So that's kind of the turning point where you're like, okay, they. They both have their issues. Like, we, we can. We can admit that they both have their issues. And we like.
[00:17:50] Speaker A: And they like, he showed that. Yes, he has his issues, but they're that also, like, it's not that hard to move past that. Like, he, he takes that. You can relatively easily.
[00:17:59] Speaker B: Yeah, you can. You can still treat me like a human being. Yeah.
So as they're sleeping and the pacing of this movie is wild. Like the things that happen to them over and over again that set up things down the line is wild. So they get a thief breaks into their room in the night, sneaks in and steals their money from their wallet.
[00:18:23] Speaker A: Steals all their cash from their.
Great time to interject this, that thief was the pizza guy who delivered the pizza that they don't actually show in the version of the movie that we watched on Hoopla.
Oh, so this movie in the original cut was three and a half hours long.
It is a 90 minute movie today.
[00:18:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:43] Speaker A: There is a director's cut that adds in some, like, extra stuff, but tremendous amount of material cut out of their surrounding movie because there was so much improv.
[00:18:53] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:18:53] Speaker A: And a lot of other things that were cut to make Del a little bit more sympathetic.
Like he was rude to the pizza guy.
[00:19:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:01] Speaker A: And so the pizza guy came back and robbed them later. Yeah, they cut out the part where he was rude and just made it. So they got robbed. Right. So there was. There was a few things there, but extended amount of, you know, material that was cut out. Including the pizza guy.
[00:19:14] Speaker B: Yeah, it's so with. With all the like, research that I was doing with, with the oral history as well as the documentary is interesting to hear. Like what of like, exciting project this was for everybody to work on. Like, there's like, we would do one scene for 14 hours because we did three takes of as written and then improv for the rest of the day.
[00:19:40] Speaker A: Yeah. And. And there's just. So there's so much of that content that he had originally wanted to have in the movie. And they just.
[00:19:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
Somebody was mentioning, like, a movie like this usually shoots in like 30, 40 days. Like, it's a comedy. It's not.
It's not crazy in terms of like, technical difficulty.
[00:20:00] Speaker A: Difficulty, stuff like that. Right.
[00:20:01] Speaker B: Yeah. But they went 84 days, like double. It's just like, okay, every scene is going to have a. Almost a full day. Unless it's just like a. Oh, we'll just grab him some coverage.
So it seems like it was so fun.
I saw in.
In the IMDb trivia. I don't know how accurate this can be, but it. One of the pieces of trivia was this is John Candy and Steve Martin's favorite movie that they worked on.
[00:20:30] Speaker A: Right. And like, you know, sure. That's just an anecdote. Yeah, whatever. But I'd buy that. Right?
[00:20:35] Speaker B: Yeah, it, like, it seems like they're.
[00:20:37] Speaker A: Having fun and it felt like, like you said, everybody involved, the big names involved. It was special for them. Right. It felt like that at the time.
[00:20:47] Speaker B: Since then kicked off John Candy and John Hughes relationship, which he clearly kept going back that well. In fact, wrote the entire movie, Uncle Buck for John Candy, just because he's just like, this is your vibe.
I need you for this.
[00:21:04] Speaker A: So.
[00:21:07] Speaker B: Do we want to kind of go over, like, favorite scenes or. Cause we could just go through the whole thing, but that would take.
[00:21:14] Speaker A: It's tough. Cause there's so many good little parts, like, little things.
[00:21:20] Speaker B: All the moments that are really special just go by in a flash.
[00:21:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
I think that you hit the big ones with the plane scene where he talks too much and. And then the hotel, the motel after that. Right. Like, that kind of solidifies their characters and the way they're going to treat each other.
They come together and then they break apart. Like, throughout this movie, it happens a few times, usually because Steve Martin loses his cool and can no longer deal with John Candy's character, Del, just ruining their day.
[00:21:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
One moment about the motel that we didn't mention, but is like the peak of the motel scene is they. After the fight, they go to sleep and then wake up cuddling.
[00:22:08] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:22:09] Speaker B: And then John Candy kisses, gives him a little, and nibbles his ear.
And in the oral history they're talking about how in the moment they were directed incredibly just straight, but everybody was laughing. Like, the crew just thought it was so funny that like they had to do the. The scene like a hundred times because, like nobody. They're doing it, nobody could get through it because it was so silly. And. And like nibble's ear.
Little bit. Little bit higher, a little bit more.
So, so silly. And then they jump out of bed and they're like, oh, how about them bears? I think they're gonna go all the way this year. Yeah.
[00:22:56] Speaker A: And like we talked about a little bit for that scene. The way it was played. It feels pretty good for an 80s movie. Yeah.
[00:23:02] Speaker B: That could have been way worse. Yeah. Yeah.
But, yeah. So favorite scene, like, I don't know.
[00:23:13] Speaker A: I really, really like the stuff surrounding the.
After they get off the train.
[00:23:22] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:23:23] Speaker A: And go to the car.
Like everything from post train to the car being on fire.
Right. Like, that's probably my favorite section there. The. The stuff. The stuff in the car when he's driving down the wrong, wrong highway. That's probably my favorite scene.
[00:23:40] Speaker B: I was gonna say the highway bit. Like, like is my favorite. Like him, him smoking the cigarette and like air pianoing to Mess around by Ray Charles is great scene.
[00:23:52] Speaker A: Like that, that whole thing peak.
[00:23:54] Speaker B: John Candy just like physical work.
[00:23:56] Speaker A: And Steve Martin's just over there asleep.
[00:23:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:57] Speaker A: The whole time.
[00:23:58] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like. It's so like delightful and like it just. You feel in the moment with. With John Candy of like a late night drive, listening to a song, keeping himself awake. Yeah.
[00:24:10] Speaker A: And just.
[00:24:10] Speaker B: And being so silly. But also like swerving all over the highway and.
But yeah, and that's where like, it just like really ramps up the silliness. And like when they go between the semis and the sparks, you see their skeletons for a second. And then Steve Martin looks over and he's the devil.
[00:24:30] Speaker A: Which felt like the most like John Hughes. Y. Like part of that movie. Yes. Yeah.
[00:24:35] Speaker B: That scene, like, silliness where it's like, this is a little bit surreal. This is a little bit like unreal. And I love that part so much.
[00:24:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:48] Speaker B: Also, like, even, even, like just the ending bits where like the heart comes back in. It's played so well. Like, because you're like. You could see a version of this movie where he's just like, oh, thank goodness we finally made it out. I'm. I'm done with this guy.
[00:25:05] Speaker A: But they're like very easily like, he goes home and his family, blah, blah, blah. Right.
[00:25:11] Speaker B: Like, you'll Never believe it. Yeah, but it was like, oh, no, no. The. There was always supposed to be a human heart in this thing. For all of our characters. There was no character that wasn't a human being deserving of, like, respect and like, just like general decency.
I don't know. Is there any other points you want to hit? The soundtrack for this movie is.
It's not classic John Hughes because it's not like a needle drop movie, but like the.
[00:25:43] Speaker A: The cues, they work in this movie.
[00:25:45] Speaker B: It's such a specific, like, road movie kind of vibe with the harmonica and.
Yeah. There's kind of a rambling vibe to the music as well.
I don't know. What do you think?
[00:26:00] Speaker A: It's a good movie. I think everybody should watch.
[00:26:03] Speaker B: Is the Movie Club movie on Hoopla.
[00:26:05] Speaker A: Hoopla, yes. So you can go watch it without using any of your borrows. Yeah. So everybody should watch it. I think he said, I think it's a good holiday movie. I can't say enough about John Candy.
[00:26:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:17] Speaker A: Like, if you have a chance to watch any of his movies, you should go watch this one.
[00:26:23] Speaker B: Yeah, there's. Yeah. And it looks like there's a few other, like maybe one or two other. Unfortunately, there is the movie that he died while filming on. On there right now, which. Going west.
[00:26:36] Speaker A: Wagons.
[00:26:37] Speaker B: Wagons East. Yeah, something like that.
So that movie is on there, which is like his last movie that he passed away during the filming of, which is a western comedy which we were just covering. So maybe we'll add that to the watch list later.
But yeah, we highly recommend this movie. I. I love Steve Martin and John Candy and like, it was fun getting to dive back and like, kind of contextualize their careers around this time. And also, like, blowing my mind that this is a John Hughes movie because I didn't even realize that before we were watching today.
[00:27:18] Speaker A: And because it's not one of those movies that gets talked about as his movie. Because this is the Steve Martin John Candy movie.
[00:27:27] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:27:27] Speaker A: The Breakfast Club is a John Hughes movie. This is the Steve Martin John Candy movie. Yeah. So, like, it feels like that the whole time. And yeah, it's like a great movie.
[00:27:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:37] Speaker A: Good stuff.
[00:27:38] Speaker B: It's got heart, it's got laughs.
It is available at least through the end of this month for no credits on Hoopla and hopefully for a little bit longer after that for a credit. But we highly recommend you watch it.
And until next time, this has been Deep Focus. Five Minute Film Finder.
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