Steve Martin plays the tightly wound Neal Page, a bundle-of-nerves advertising executive. John Candy portrays the innocent, but always skewered, Del Griffith (Director of sales, American Light and Fixture, shower curtain ring division), a shower curtain ring salesman who seems to live in a world governed by a different set of rules from those governing Neal Page's marketing life.
The movie follows the story of Neal Page as he tries to return to his family for Thanksgiving in Chicago after being on a business trip in New York. The journey is doomed from the outset, with Del Griffith interfering by inadvertently snatching the taxi cab that Page had hailed for himself. The two inevitably pair up later and begin an absurdly error-prone adventure to help Page get back to his home. Their flight from LaGuardia Airport to O'Hare is diverted to Wichita due to a blizzard in Chicago, which ends up dissipating only a few hours after touchdown in Kansas. When every mode of transport fails them, what should have been a 1 hour and 45 minute New York-to-Chicago flight turns into a three-day adventure.
Neal frequently blows up at Del, blaming him for much of their misfortunes, though mere fate is more at fault. Del in turn regards Neal as pretentious and uptight, while Del is less afraid to be himself. After much heated argument between the two men, a bond between them forms, and Neal finally manages to overcome his self-centeredness and both men pull together to finally make their way home.
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Lambert Field in popular culture:
-In the television show Newsradio Bill and Dave are stuck at Lambert for the length of the episode due to bad weather.
-Lambert is the airport that the Seinfeld characters leave from in the episode "The Airport."
-Lambert is also featured in the movie Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Neal Page (Steve Martin) attempts to rent a car there, with disastrous (and profanity-laden) consequences.
-Lambert is mentioned in the 1986 movie Manhunter as the FBI fly in during their pursuit of the killer.
-Lambert is one of the filming locations for the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs.
-In the 2004 presidential campaign, John Kerry mixed up Lambert Field with Green Bay's Lambeau Field.
-In the movie Anger Management, Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) was on a flight to Lambert.
-In 2006 Lambert International is mentioned in a few scenes in the movie The Return which was set in Austin, Texas. A large part of this film was shot at Lambert.
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Also, Late Night With David Letterman Season 7, Ep 19: Show #0994 Live, via satellite, viewers watch the luggage carousel at St. Louis Airport.
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*Please note that there are four nearly indistinguishable "sections" of the Main Terminal where filming occurred. Since none was labeled "Commuter Airline" as seen in screen capture in the present day (20 years later) a best guess was performed for GPSr coordinates.