An immediate clue you're watching a John Hughes film:
A very familiar home, to be sure.
This features -- briefly -- in Hughes' 1987 film Planes, Trains & Automobiles.
I've seen the highlights to this film a thousand times. But never seen the full movie.
And after the Edie McClurg exchange and the ensuing discussion of Larry Bird ball handling, i'll remain unwatched.
I have a moderate tolerance for foul language, but this one crossed the bar.
It was fun to see the typical John Hughes Midwest place-setting, but I'm not putting up with the cussing to watch any more of this.
It's easy enough to show a character is fed up and angry without dropping into one of the longest streaks of using the F-word I have ever heard in a film. That's a cheap way to show anger; and only Edie McClurg's use of the word was comical. I'm not sure what Hughes was going for with having Steve Martin deliver that tirade, but it was lazy.
I get he might have been trying to get away from his reputation as a teen movie writer and director, but if your idea of an adult movie is adult language, I'll pass, thankyouverymuch.
Yet I'm still watching . . . update to come.
Well, this is subtle. Were Neal and his wife having struggles outside of his delayed arrival this Thanksgiving? That's the unanswered question. That Del had nowhere to go was less subtle.
Guess the point is we don't know what other peoples' struggles are unless we walk in their moccasins. Or travel with them cross-country.
Still one I don't think I need to see again.
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