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Probably unlikely. It's been rumored from multiple reliable sources that Star Trek-The Next Generation might only have been fiction.

Daniel Carey THERE'S a great scene in the 1988 comedy - The Great Outdoors' where an out-of-breath Chester - Chet' Ripley arrives back at his lake resort cabin.

The 411 Movies Top 5 11.27.09: Week 193 - The Top 5 Road Trip Movies Posted by Trevor Snyder on 11.27.2009 This week, the 411 crew packs up the RV and embarks on a quest to find the greatest road trip movies ever made.

When it comes to holiday movies, the ones about Christmas get all the press. But what of the Thanksgiving film, those cinematic stories that are set on the day of festive feasting, or contain at least one crucial scene that takes place around the time of Turkey Day? Turns out there are more movies in this category than you might think.

Stunned by the untimely death of writer-director John Hughes this past August, movie fans the world over showered the filmmaker's beloved '80s teen comedies - "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Weird Science" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" - with nostalgic praise and spoke of the impact those films had on their lives.

Not interested in the football scores? Here are seven Thanksgiving classics to watch on the small screen.

What will you rent this Thanksgiving when the tryptophan kicks in and no one wants to move from the sofa? Vote on your holiday favorites and let us know what we missed in the comments.

Reading an announcement made today from the U.S. Department of Transportation on expanding the role of the Federal Transit Administration in ensuring public rail and bus safety, I chuckled at a veiled reference, likely unintended, to the 1987 cult movie classic starring Steve Martin and John Candy.

Note to Antoine Walker, the former NBA star who owes three Las Vegas casinos $822,500: When your card has a picture on it and the dealer's has a six, you are not required to ask for another card.

Article by Brian Holcomb : 2009-11-09 10:56:16 Chicago ad executive Neal Page just wants to get home to his family for Thanksgiving, and it suddenly seems as though the entire universe is standing in the way of his one simple goal.

With the Thanksgiving holiday upon us, it's time to order those DVDs for family films guaranteed to delight young and old.

Remember spoofs before the Wayans brothers? It's time to remember the good old days of, er...slightly more respectable parodies like the 1987 film Spaceballs , in which Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, and John Candy poke fun at beloved sci-fi films like Star Wars and Star Trek .

EA for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Rated M for mature. Tim Schafer, the acclaimed writer and producer of "Brutal Legend," loves heavy metal.

In 1987 John Hughes took a huge risk. The man who had spent three years profiling the lives of teenagers did the unthinkable: He wrote and directed two movies featuring adults: She's Having a Baby and Planes, Trains & Automobiles .

By DNA Smith EDITOR'S NOTE: DVDs reviewed in this column will be available in stores the week of Oct.

The concept has since gone from merely a Windy City-based cabaret theater to an additional outpost in Toronto and training centers in those cities and Los Angeles.

The letters in the title of " Planes, Trains and Automobiles " roar across the screen like a streamliner, and the movie itself has the same confidence.

Much bandwidth gets eaten up every day as these far out theories get debated on the web.

Much bandwidth gets eaten up every day as these far out theories get debated on the web.

Michael Diliberti and Matthew Sullivan have been tapped to pen "Brewster's Millions," the latest take on the George Barr McCutcheon novel set up at Warner Bros.