History TearJerker / PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles

** "I wish you were here with me right now. But I guess... ''that's'' not gonna happen. Not now anyway."

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** When Neil starts yelling at him, Del is willing to argue back for a few minutes... until [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne Neal insults his "boring stories,"]] at which point he goes quiet and starts breathing more heavily, as if he's about to cry, and remains awkwardly quiet until Neil is finished laying into him. Neil clearly took it too far by making it personal.

* While cutting it benefited the film in the long run, the monologue Del gives Neil in the original script about how he came to be a homeless drifter is devastating, especially his particular choice of words when he talks about how lucky Neil is to be the father he'd never had the chance to be himself.

** There's also his line about how he tries to make it to church around this time every year just to feel like he belongs somewhere, but couldn't make it in time. Del knows he's clingy, but also makes it clear that this desperation to have friends is the one thing ''keeping him sane.'' And yet, true to his character, he apologizes to Neil for burdening him and advises him that he'd "better run" before Del makes things worse.

** His line about how his wife likes him is especially sad once you learn [[spoiler:said wife was DeadAllAlong]].

* The WhamLine in the penultimate scene: [[spoiler: "I don't have a home. Marie's been dead for eight years."]]
* Del's monologue to [[spoiler:his dead wife]] about how much of a screw-up he is while sitting in the burnt-up wreck of a car, just as it's beginning to snow. Not only does he know he has problems that needs to work on, but it implies that things weren't so rosy between them when [[spoiler:she died]].

* While cutting it benefited the film in the long run, the monologue Del gives Neil in the original script about how he came to be [[spoiler:a homeless drifter]] is devastating, especially his particular choice of words when he talks about how lucky Neil is to be the father he'd never had the chance to be himself.

** "I wish you were here with me right now. But I guess... ''that's'' not gonna happen."

* Del's monologue to [[spoiler:his dead wife]] about how much of a screw up he is while sitting in the burnt-up wreck of a car, just as it's beginning to snow. Not only does he know he has problems that needs to work on, but it implies that things weren't so rosy between them when [[spoiler:she died]].
* While cutting it [[JustifiedTrope benefited the film in the long run]], the monologue Del gives Neil in the original script about how he came to be [[spoiler:a homeless drifter]] is devastating, especially his particular choice of words when he talks about how lucky Neil is to be the father he'd never had the chance to be himself.

-->''"The movies that last, the ones we return to, don't always have lofty themes or Byzantine complexities. Sometimes they last because they are arrows straight to the heart. When Neal unleashes that tirade in the motel room and Del's face saddens, he says, 'Oh. I see.' It is a moment that not only defines Del's life, but is a turning point in Neal's, because he also is a lonely soul, and too well organized to know it. Strange, how much poignancy creeps into this comedy, and only becomes stronger while we're laughing."''
-->-Creator/RogerEbert in his [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-planes-trains-and-automobiles-1987 review]] for the film

* The WhamLine in the penultima

te scene: [[spoiler: "I don't have a home. Marie's been dead for eight years."]]

** While John Candy's excellent performance is what sells the scene, instrumental version of "Power To Believe" by Dream Academy, which scores it, elevates it to gut-wrenching perfection.

** The instrumental version of "Power To Believe" by Dream Academy, which scores the end of the scene, makes the whole scene even more emotional.
* The WhamLine in the penultimate scene: [[spoiler: "I don't have a home. Marie's been dead for eight years."]]