Tommy Boy
Tommy Boy is a 1995 American buddy comedy film directed by Peter Segal, written by Bonnie and Terry Turner, produced by Lorne Michaels, and starring soon-to-be former Saturday Night Live castmates and close friends Chris Farley and David Spade. The first of many films that Segal has filmed with former SNL castmates, it tells the story of a socially and emotionally immature man (Farley) who learns lessons about friendship and self-worth, following the sudden death of his industrialist father.
Plot
After seven years at college, friendly but dim-witted Tommy Callahan III barely graduates from Marquette University and returns to his hometown of Sandusky, Ohio. His father, widowed industrialist Thomas R. "Big Tom" Callahan Jr., gives him an executive job at the family's auto parts plant, Callahan Auto, and reveals he will marry Beverly Barrish-Burns, whom he had met at a fat farm, with her son Paul effectively becoming Tommy's new stepbrother. However, Big Tom suddenly suffers a fatal heart attack during the wedding reception. After the funeral, doubting the company will survive without Big Tom, the bank reneges on promises of a loan for a new brake pad division, requiring that the company's debts be resolved immediately. Tommy suggests that he will let the bank hold his few inherited shares and house in exchange for the bank giving time to sell 500,000 brake pads to prove the new division's viability; if he succeeds, the bank will underwrite the venture. Tommy then sets out on a cross-country sales trip with Big Tom's sardonic and sycophantic assistant Richard Hayden, a childhood acquaintance who is particularly antagonistic towards Tommy.
More details
author | Bonnie and Terry Turner |
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contentLocation | Chicago Wisconsin |
director | Peter Segal |
editor | William Kerr |
genre | comedy social |
keywords | advertise arrest bigamous bigamy brake pad cancel claim con artist confidence trick connect crash test criminal record fat farm flight attendant fraud heart attack hyperactivity inherit kiss live television marquette university married myocardial infarction outstanding warrants plan read sale school class self-pity seven years social anxiety suicide bomber television warrant wedding reception weight loss camp widow |
musicBy | David Newman |
producer | Lorne Michaels |
publisher | Paramount Pictures |
recordedAt | Toronto |
theme | buddy comedy high school road movie screwball comedy |