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You will need your own copy of the movie to watch along! 😁

John Hughes smashing it again 😁 This one's my new favourite, forget about The Breakfast Club!

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Eric Bonham

The old man on the plane that you recognized was in Home Alone.

Paul M

I think if you like all three movies in a director’s poll, you should just keep going, or at least watch #4. No doubt you’d love John Candy in Uncle Buck. Plus based on a couple other reactors (Rob Squad and Ashleigh Burton), you can get even more views with Uncle Buck than with Breakfast Club

William

typical two men on a road trip, utter chaos. You and your bestie would be completely orgainsed.

Lee Pitman

Great reaction. The end hits home and is heartbreaking. The exterior of their aircraft in flight is a re-use of the 707 flying through the storm from the movie Airplane! (1980), also released by Paramount Pictures. The exterior of the rental car was designed to resemble that of the Griswolds' station wagon, from John Hughes' previous production, National Lampoon's Vacation (1983). John Hughes originally wanted Tom Hanks for the role of Neal Page and John Travolta for the role of Del Griffith. Hanks was unavailable since he was busy shooting Big (1988). Paramount executives did not want Travolta in the movie because he was considered "box office poison" at the time. John Goodman was also considered for the role of Del Griffith. The house used as Neal's family home is actually in Kenilworth, Illinois, on Warwick. The house used in Home Alone (1990) was on Lincoln Avenue in Winnetka, one town over. There is an end-credit scene. After all the end credits, there's a shot of advertising executive William Windom in the office as in the scene at the beginning of the movie, still examining the pictures Neal Page was waiting for him to finish perusing at the staff meeting.

Kevin (31Mike)

When this movie came out, I was 18 and working as an usher at a movie theater in Greenbelt Maryland (maybe 15 minutes away from the White House in D.C.). I watched this movie, standing in the back of the theater, so many times with my friends that we could nearly recite the entire movie line by line. The first time we watched it was a couple of days before it was officially released for the public and when the scene with the skeletons and the 'devil' came up, we were literally rolling in the aisles. I also think that this movie holds the record for consecutive F bombs. 1987 was a great year for movies, and though it was 37 years ago, it really feels like yesterday in my mind. Tempus Fugit!