Movies: Planes Trains and Automobiles
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Movies: Planes Trains and Automobiles

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 26, 20261 hr 6 min
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A buttoned-up marketing executive just wants to get home to Chicago for Thanksgiving, but every flight, train, and rental car conspires against him. Stuck sharing the journey with an overly chatty, relentlessly good-natured shower curtain ring salesman, what starts as pure irritation slowly turns into one of the most unexpected friendships in movie history. It is Steve Martin and John Candy at their absolute best, hilarious right up until it quietly breaks your heart, and if you have never seen it, The Best Movies You've Never Seen, thanks to Fetch and Hisense, is giving you...

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Hello and welcome to our movie podcast. A podcast about movies that you may not have seen, that Trevor Long, my co-host, has definitely not seen. My name's Steven Fenwick.

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I'm the movie nerd of the podcast. I've seen all these movies more than once and I show them each and every week to Trevor and you know what, you might be watching them for yourself

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for the very first time. I'm not the only person. There's no doubt. No, you're not.

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