Movie Music Monday – Planes, Trains and Automobiles – Various Ramblings of a Nostalgic Italian

One of the great holiday films is Planes, Trains and Automobiles with John Candy and Steve Martin. It’s a John Hughes classic. It can have you laughing one minute and crying the next.

Martin and Candy are brilliant together. They play so well off of each other and the adventure to get home is full of bumps along the way.

In one of my favorite scenes, John Candy is driving while Steve Martin is sleeping. Ray Charles comes on the radio and Candy begins playing air piano.

In honor of the legendary Ray Charles’ birthday today (he was born on this day in 1930), here is the song and the movie scene (with edited version of the song).