during their Thanksgiving vacations/staycations? I certainly am. A comedy classic and one of my favorites. Steve Martin and John Candy are great together, funny and heartwarming all at the same time. I was reading on the IMDB trivia page that John Hughes's first choices were Tom Hanks and John Travolta. Hanks was unavailable at the time because of filming big and Travolta was considered box office poison at the time, his last hit being Urban Cowboy. I can see Hanks as Neal Page, that would have been a good choice. Travolta....would have been an odd choice for Del, but I think he could have pulled it off. Candy and Martin though were the right choices in the end...