Due Date and Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Due Date directed by Todd Phillips and Planes, Trains and Automobiles directed by John Hughes are both movies that deal with very uncomfortable situations. In Due Date, Peter Highman played by Robert Downy Jr. is a serious business man whose luck turns to bad when he runs into Ethan Tremblay played by Zach Galifianakis. Peter is in desperate need to go to Los Angeles but after being kicked off the airplane by Ethan. As if things couldn’t get worse, Peter find out that he doesn’t have his wallet in order to rent a car but notices that his nuisance Ethan has a rental car. Getting a ride with Ethan was his last resort to get to his pregnant wife. Not only does he tolerate a complete idiot for a long period of time but he also needs to race time to get there before his child is born. Planes, Trains and Automobiles is almost the same plot and concept as due date. Neal Page played by Steve Martin is also a serious business man who gets stuck with an annoying man named Del Griffith played by John Candy because of a snow storm that blocks all air plane traffic. Like Due Date the similar chain of events happen to Neal and Del. Even Del is very similar to Ethan because both are over exaggerated over weight men, who both seem to want to find company after experiencing a drought of loneliness; both had a death of someone close to them. In both films you can see Peter and Neal start off very unsympathetic but after tribulations with the nuisances, they realize that they had been taking their family time for granted.