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A year of honoring John Hughes — from an Oscars tribute in March to Emma Stone’s shout-outs in Easy A — climaxed in late 2010 with director Todd Phillips’s largely agreeable latest, essentially a remake of Planes, Trains & Automobiles. That 1987 comedy was a watershed for Hughes, who expanded his teencentric palette into middle-aged anxiety. It works the same way for the director of The Hangover: Phillips can still launch a dog-masturbation joke into the stratosphere, but the welcome surprise here is tenderness.

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