The BMW's license plate is "SHAB" which is an acronym of the title. This movie was filmed at the same time as Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987), which was also directed by 'John Hughes' , and features some of the same cast members. Paul Gleason plays an uncredited character called "Blind Boy Grunt". Blind Boy Grunt was a pseudonym used by Bob Dylan in the early 1960s, and was also the name of a famous bootleg album of his in the early 1970s. ...[Read Story ]