Adventures of Neal & Del

For the holidays, you always pop in a movie to make you feel warm and cozy. But in this one, you just want to know if they would ever be friends.

  Steve Martin, portraying Neal and the late John Candy, portraying Del, are set off on an unlikely adventure when the two meet as Neal is trying to get home. They try the plane, but it seems with the bad weather, it isn't happening.

Steve Martin is hilarious, no doubt about that. In this movie, he's going through every length to get home for Thanksgiving dinner as he is stuck in NYC because of his job and a blizzard. He loses his cab (not by a Kevin Bacon cameo) but John Candy's character, Del. He's heartwarming, sweet and sells shower curtain rings.
 They both travel together by a plane a train and an automobile.
    When they are stuck in Chicago, Del suggests to Neil that they would have to go by a train, but the train is derailed and they are stuck in Jefferson City. Spending the night arguing in a dirty motel room, and eventually...
  one of the funniest scenes in my opinion, is when Neal was trying to get his car but it wasn't at the spot and out comes "f bombs" more than once. It is the only time this movie uses that word. But more than once.
   The woman's response as she tries to help Neil is: "You're f--ked"
They have to ride in the back of trucks, in busses where the passengers know every word of the Flintstone's theme song. Their rental car catches on fire as well. Causing them to go from car, to car, to car.
They even slept with each other, have a fight and eventually...

When they get to Chicago they part ways but, we learn the sad truth that Del's wife, which he carried a picture of her around, had been dead and he had spending nights in bus stations or plane terminals. Emotional as their journey had been, Neal invites him to his house for Thanksgiving, therefore making a new friend as well.

  This movie, written and directed by John Hughes, is one that sticks into my memory now, as it did back in the 1980's. I miss John Candy and John Hughes but their works will always be remembered for what they are.

John Candy being funny, and heartfelt at the same time. Steve Martin stated that this was one of his favorite movies and still is to this date.
It seemed that this movie (along with Uncle Buck and Home Alone) made many John Candy memories. And at the end, it seems Neal and Del had a friendship that made many miles, and at the end, it seems Neal came home to much more than a Thanksgiving Dinner, but a new friend as well.

  This movie is great for so many reasons, a friends journey, moments that are heartfelt as well as memorable. Till then, enjoy this movie and John Candy's everlasting performance. Steve Martin would not miss it for the world, and neither would we.