Burt vs Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Burt has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.2/10 for Planes, Trains and Automobiles). Burt is the shorter watch at 1h 18m compared with 1h 33m. Planes, Trains and Automobiles is the older of the two (1987 against 2025). Both are comedy movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Burt posterBurt2025 VS Planes, Trains and Automobiles posterPlanes, Trains and Automobiles1987
BurtPlanes, Trains and Automobiles
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.2/10
Year20251987
Length1h 18m1h 33m
GenresComedy, DramaComedy
Country––
DirectorJoe BurkeJohn Hughes
Main castOliver Cooper, Olivia Luccardi, Brenda Vaccaro, John Karna, Louis LombardiKevin Bacon, Steve Martin, Richard Herd, Michael McKean, Dylan Baker

Synopsis

Burt

Burt, a 69-year-old musician with Parkinson’s, has his life turned upside down when a man from New York shows up claiming to be his son. Having always dreamed of being a father, Burt embraces Sammy and invites him to stay for the weekend, where he lives with his grumpy landlord.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.

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