Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

John Hughes jumps from high school to middle age, and the jump feels natural and almost refined. Hughes is too undisciplined a storytelling to really call anything he did refined, though. The embrace of loose comic structures and improvisation always makes his films feel a bit more gangly than they could be, even when I think the overall packages are very good, even great, because while he may be undisciplined, he also always had a very clear eyed view of the human side of things. And Planes...