You know everything is not an anecdote. You have to discriminate. You choose things that are funny or mildly amusing or interesting.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

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Topic

Stories

Speaker

Neal Page

Actor

Steve Martin

Source

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Medium

Film

Genre

Road movie Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Directed by John Hughes, Hughes Entertainment, 1987.

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