Dutch Dooley is the boyfriend of a wealthy, snobbish tycoon's ex-wife.
Volunteering to drive her son home for Thanksgiving to Chicago from his boarding school in Georgia, little does Dutch expect the bizarre situations in store for him.
When a blunt, down-to-earth construction worker takes to the road with an insufferable twelve-year-old snob, insecure under the surface, who does not approve of him in the least.
A lot of ground must covered before they can reach their destination as friends........
It's that age old problem isn't it. Rich people automatically thinking that the working class are a bunch of buffoons who wouldn't know Champagne from Cava, but give them the benefit of the doubt because, hey! Rich people shouldn't do labour outs jobs should they?
So here we get two kind of road trips, the literal one with all the hi-jinks you'd expect from a film that has the John Hughes name to it, and the metaphorical road trip where they find themselves, and gain a mutual respect for each other, and it's as bland as it sounds.
Firstly O'Neill as Dutch had to be one of the most unlikable good guys in the history of a Hughes written movie. We are supposed to side with a fully grown man who leaves a vulnerable child in the middle of nowhere at night? But hey it's okay, the boy is a rich brat. The rich must be punished!!!
Embry is your typical Hughes brat. Abhorrent to the last sugar coated embrace, he's as unlikable as the titular character, and we have over an hour of these two on the road, bit picking at one another.
Imagine Planes, Trains, and Automobiles with all the charm, wit, intelligence and love taken away, and you have this unfunny ordeal.
And it all ends with Christopher Macdonald gaining a serious head injury, oh how I'd live to be working class, you can do anything you like to the other classes, and still be respected........because your a working man.
Don't make me laugh.
Rubbish.
Volunteering to drive her son home for Thanksgiving to Chicago from his boarding school in Georgia, little does Dutch expect the bizarre situations in store for him.
When a blunt, down-to-earth construction worker takes to the road with an insufferable twelve-year-old snob, insecure under the surface, who does not approve of him in the least.
A lot of ground must covered before they can reach their destination as friends........
It's that age old problem isn't it. Rich people automatically thinking that the working class are a bunch of buffoons who wouldn't know Champagne from Cava, but give them the benefit of the doubt because, hey! Rich people shouldn't do labour outs jobs should they?
So here we get two kind of road trips, the literal one with all the hi-jinks you'd expect from a film that has the John Hughes name to it, and the metaphorical road trip where they find themselves, and gain a mutual respect for each other, and it's as bland as it sounds.
Firstly O'Neill as Dutch had to be one of the most unlikable good guys in the history of a Hughes written movie. We are supposed to side with a fully grown man who leaves a vulnerable child in the middle of nowhere at night? But hey it's okay, the boy is a rich brat. The rich must be punished!!!
Embry is your typical Hughes brat. Abhorrent to the last sugar coated embrace, he's as unlikable as the titular character, and we have over an hour of these two on the road, bit picking at one another.
Imagine Planes, Trains, and Automobiles with all the charm, wit, intelligence and love taken away, and you have this unfunny ordeal.
And it all ends with Christopher Macdonald gaining a serious head injury, oh how I'd live to be working class, you can do anything you like to the other classes, and still be respected........because your a working man.
Don't make me laugh.
Rubbish.