Overview
- ZDFneo will broadcast the film on Tuesday, March 3, at 22:35.
- Released in 1987, the screwball comedy pairs Steve Martin with John Candy as mismatched travel companions.
- The story follows ad executive Neal Page and shower-curtain-ring salesman Del Griffith on a Thanksgiving trek marked by mishaps like a snow‑diverted flight and a one‑bed hotel stay in Kansas.
- Contemporary TV features from inFranken.de, Merkur.de and FOCUS online, citing teleschau, present it as an unjustly forgotten 1980s favorite.
- The film is noted as a John Hughes milestone; Hughes died in 2009 at 59, John Candy died in 1994 at 43, and Steve Martin remains active, including on Only Murders in the Building.