Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) - 7 corrections

Directed by John Hughes, starring John Candy, Kevin Bacon, Michael McKean, Steve Martin (add more)

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Entry In one scene where John Candy and Steve Martin are in the car, John Candy is adjusting the seat electrically, but later when he is driving he gets his coat caught on knobs. Why does the passenger side adjust electronically and the driver's side is manual? [The driver's side isn't necessarily manual. My car seats adjust electrically, but the lumbar support (which is on the driver's seat only) is adjusted by a lever that looks exactly like the one in this movie. To be fair, I can't think of what the rotary knob would be for, but it must have a function not covered by the electronic controls.]
Corrected by Phixius Time
Entry In the bus when Del suggests everyone sing the theme to "The Flintstones" the audio sounds as if everyone (or at least many of the people) in the bus sings along. But immediately thereafter, a brief shot of the people in the bus (actually, just the people behind Del and Neal) shows everyone sitting quietly, not singing, and not even looking towards Del who is singing. [True, but that does not change the fact that there remains seventeen passengers sitting in front of them (I counted them from the previous shot when they all turned and looked as Neil started to sing "Three Coins in a Fountain") who all could have been singing, thus making the audio of the scene correct after all.]
Corrected by OneHappyHusky Time
Entry Just after Neal and Dell settle into the hotel room, we see Neal in the shower. He opens the shower curtain and see clothes and towels and the dirty sink, etc. Now wouldn't he have seen all that stuff before getting into the shower? [No, Del made that mess while Neal was in the shower. They were both in the bathroom at the same time.]
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Entry When John Candy and Steve Martin share the same bed in the first motel scene they argue about exploding beer cans on the vibrating bed. You can see the bed is dry when John Candy gets into it after their argument. [If you listened carefully you would have heard that Dell actually offers to switch sleeping sides, indicating that the beer exploded on Neal's side and not Dell's, so why would we see the bed wet on his side?]
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Entry At the end of the movie, why does Steve Martin ring the doorbell on his own house? [He may have lost the keys.]
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Entry Throughout the film, Dell 'loses' his big trunk. This usually happens after they argue, or Dell has to shoot off to barter with shower curtain hooks. [Neil was probably watching Dell's trunk when he is off selling/bartering the shower curtain rings. Also, Neil and Dell are shown in numerous scenes (i.e. - after the train breaks down, on the highway after the car crash, at the subway station) lugging the trunk around. While Neil probably wished Dell lost the trunk, it appears throughout the film.]
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Entry When Neil finally gets home, he and Dell ring the doorbell and Neil's daughter answers the door. In the background Neil's father-in-law can be seen holding Neil's youngest son. But when he introduces Dell to everyone the baby is gone. Neil even says "...and somewhere around here is my baby boy." [If you watch carefully, the father-in-law puts the little boy down and the little boy runs off while Neil is hugging the other family memebers. So it is acurate when he says his baby boy is somewhere around here.]
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