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| - After seven years at college, Thomas R. "Tommy" Callahan III (Chris Farley) barely graduates from Marquette University and returns to his hometown of Sandusky, Ohio. His father, industrialist, and widower, Thomas R. "Big Tom" Callahan, Jr. (Brian Dennehy), gives him an executive job at the family's auto parts plant, Callahan Auto. In addition to the new job and office, Big Tom reveals that he plans to marry Beverly Barrish-Burns (Bo Derek), a woman he had met at a fat farm, and that her son, Paul (Rob Lowe), will become Tommy's new stepbrother. Tommy is overjoyed at having a new family, and takes a reluctant Paul around town in an attempt to show him a good time. At the wedding, Big Tom suddenly dies of a heart attack. After the funeral, doubting the future of the company without Big Tom,
- A 1995 comedy directed by Peter Segal and starring Chris Farley and David Spade. Tommy Callahan (Farley) is the Man Child son of auto part factory owner Tom Callahan (Brian Dennehy). Big Tom marries Beverly Barish-Burns (Bo Derek), a new wife with a rather conniving "son" Paul (Rob Lowe), then has a heart attack and dies at the wedding reception. Shortly after, his now-widow and stepson use their stocks to try and sell the company to auto magnate Ray Zalinsky (Dan Aykroyd), putting all the workers at Callahan out of business (which was, of course, their goal all along).
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| - A 1995 comedy directed by Peter Segal and starring Chris Farley and David Spade. Tommy Callahan (Farley) is the Man Child son of auto part factory owner Tom Callahan (Brian Dennehy). Big Tom marries Beverly Barish-Burns (Bo Derek), a new wife with a rather conniving "son" Paul (Rob Lowe), then has a heart attack and dies at the wedding reception. Shortly after, his now-widow and stepson use their stocks to try and sell the company to auto magnate Ray Zalinsky (Dan Aykroyd), putting all the workers at Callahan out of business (which was, of course, their goal all along). The only way for Tommy to avert this is to sell enough brake pads to make the company profitable. But will a bumbling idiot who took seven years to finish college have enough business savvy to sell enough brake pads...and will he be able to overcome the scheming of his new "family"? The movie was panned by critics (Roger Ebert put it on his Most Hated Film List), but it was a success commercially and was Chris Farley's Breakout Role.
* A Date with Rosie Palms: Richard has one while ogling Ms. Fanservice from his hotel window. Tommy never lets him live it down.
* Actor Allusion: When Tommy's future step-mother first appears she is referred to as being a "ten". Bo Derek has been referred to as being a "ten" before in the movie "10".
* During the flight to Chicago, David Spade is a rude flight attendant. Why does that sound familiar?
* The Alleged Car: Richard's car turns into this during the course of the film, between the M&M's, the door coming off at the gas station, the deer tearing up the entire backseat (and most of the rest of the car), and the hood coming off because of the oil can left in. By the end of the film, Richard parks it illegally and tells the objecting security guard to "keep it".
* Amazing Freaking Grace: Played during Big Tom's funeral.
* Amusing Injuries / Running Gag: Paul
* Breathe on the Fan: Luke... I am your father.
* Catch Phrase: "Son of a..."
* "I've got a plan!" "...Yikes."
* Caught with Your Pants Down / A Date with Rosie Palms: Richard
* Chew Toy: Richard's car.
* Cleveland Rocks: Well, Sandusky, but close enough.
* Danger Takes a Backseat: The deer, in a Crowning Moment of Funny.
* Deadpan Snarker: Richard
* Does This Make Me Look Fat?: "No no no, your face does."
* Door Dumb: Tommy tries to open the front door to the university building, only to find it locked. After panicking and giving up, he slumps down on the steps just as another student calmly opens the adjacent door and walks in.
* Fake Video Camera View: When Richard is filming parts of the wedding.
* Fan Service: The skinny dipping woman at the hotel pool.
* Fat and Skinny: "Fat guy in a little coat! Fat guy in a little coat!"
* Gilligan Cut: Richard tells Tommy they can't take no for an answer. Cut to the first customer saying "no" and Tommy going, "Okay, then" and getting up to leave.
* The Carpenters' "Superstar" is on the car radio - Tommy and Richard both shrug noncomittally about changing stations. Quick scene cut, and they're both singing along at the top of their lungs, tears streaming down their cheeks.
* Gold Digger: Beverly, who marries Big Tom just so she can divorce him later on and take half his fortune.
* Jerkass: Richard, although he evolves into somewhat of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
* Karma Houdini: While Paul is arrested and effectively vasectomized, Beverly not only gets away scott-free but gets a brand-new, even richer sugar daddy.
* Justified, since Paul abandoned her while trying to escape and was the one who actually performed sabotage on the company. The only "evil" things Beverly did was marry a man for his money and lie about already being married (and try to sell off the company, but hey that's just business).
* Large Ham: Tommy, of course.
* Man Child: Tommy, again.
* Mood Whiplash: Heartwarming reunion! Gleeful wedding! Tear-jerking funeral. Funny buddy road movie?
* Never Live It Down: In-universe: Tommy catches Richard ogling an attractive skinny-dipper. After some initial teasing, they go to bed:
* Phrase Catcher / Running Gag: "Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?"
* "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Richard gets a very well-deserved one from a prospective client, who calls him out on being a smug, condescending Jerkass to everyone he meets.
* Tommy gets more than his share of these speeches from Richard throughout the movie, too.
* Something Something Leonard Bernstein: Done with the trope naming song (they only catch the chorus and "6 O'clock, TV hour" before it goes down to mumbling).
* Shout-Out: Star Wars.
* Throw It In: While there are probably other examples, "Does this make me look fat?" "No, your face does" is confirmed to have begun as an ad-lib.
* Travelling Salesman Montage: Of course.
* We Care: Zalinsky's ads: "I make car parts for the American working man, because that's what I am, and that's who I care about." The reality: "Truth is, I make car parts for the American working man because I'm a hell of a salesman and he doesn't know any better."
* Won't Take Yes for An Answer: Tommy certainly wasn't expecting someone would buy from him...
* Wicked Stepmother: Beverly was this to Tommy until it was revealed she was already married to Paul, thus making her marriage to Big Tom illegal.
* You Don't Want to Catch This: "Bees! Bees! Oh God, they're everywhere!"
* My God.
- After seven years at college, Thomas R. "Tommy" Callahan III (Chris Farley) barely graduates from Marquette University and returns to his hometown of Sandusky, Ohio. His father, industrialist, and widower, Thomas R. "Big Tom" Callahan, Jr. (Brian Dennehy), gives him an executive job at the family's auto parts plant, Callahan Auto. In addition to the new job and office, Big Tom reveals that he plans to marry Beverly Barrish-Burns (Bo Derek), a woman he had met at a fat farm, and that her son, Paul (Rob Lowe), will become Tommy's new stepbrother. Tommy is overjoyed at having a new family, and takes a reluctant Paul around town in an attempt to show him a good time. At the wedding, Big Tom suddenly dies of a heart attack. After the funeral, doubting the future of the company without Big Tom, the bank reneges on promises of a loan for a new brake pad division and seeks immediate payment of Callahan Auto's debts. Ray Zalinsky (Dan Aykroyd), owner and operator of another automotive, Zalinsky Auto Parts, offers to buy them out while the company's shares are high, but Tommy suggests a deal: he will let the bank hold his inherited shares and house in exchange for helping the sales of brake pads going. The bank agrees, but they also want the company to prove it still has viability by selling 500,000 brake pads. If they succeed, the bank will grant the loan. Tommy volunteers to go on a cross-country sales trip with his father's sycophantic assistant, Richard Hayden (David Spade), a childhood acquaintance who is annoyed over Tommy's ability to be lazy and yet be rewarded. Meanwhile, Beverly and Paul are shown kissing romantically. They are not mother and son, but rather married con artisits with criminal records. Instead of eventually getting a divorce and taking half of Big Tom's estate, Beverly has inherited half of the controlling interest in the company. To turn that into cash, she seeks a quick sale to Zalinsky. On the road, Tommy's social anxiety and hyperactivity alienate several potential buyers. The lack of any progress leads to tension between Tommy and Richard. In addition, the duo encounter a variety of incidents that lead to the near destruction of Richard's car. When all seems lost, Tommy persuades a surly waitress to serve him chicken wings after the friers are turned off. Seeing this, Richard realizes that Tommy has the ability to read people, just like his father, and suggests this is how he should sell all the time. The two mend their friendship and start to sell effectively to various automotive plants, eventually putting them over the half million mark. However, Paul sabotages the company's computers, causing sales posted by sales manager Michelle Brock (Julie Warner) to be lost or misrouted. With half of the sales now canceled, the bank, backed by Beverly and Paul, decides to sell Callahan Auto to Zalinsky. Hoping that they can persuade Zalinsky to reconsider, Tommy and Richard travel to Chicago boarding a plane as flight attendants. In Chicago, they get a brief meeting with Zalinsky, but he tells them he only wants Callahan for the reputation, not the employees, and that after sale he will dissolve the company and absorb the production line into his company, leaving Callahan workers unemployed. Tommy and Richard are denied entrance to the Zalinsky board room since Tommy has no standing. After briefly wallowing on the curb in self-pity, Michelle arrives with Paul and Beverly's police records. Tommy devises 'a plan': dressed as a suicide bomber by using road flares, he attracts the attention of a live television news crew and then, along with Michelle and Richard, forces his way back into the board room. Back in Sandusky, Callahan workers watch the drama on a television In a final move of pure persuasion, Tommy quotes Zalinsky's own advertising slogan, that he is on the side of the "American working man." As the TV audience watches, Zalinsky signs Tommy's purchase order for 500,000 brake pads. Although Zalinsky says that the purchase order is meaningless as he will soon own Callahan Auto, Michelle shows her police records, which includes Paul's outstanding warrants for fraud. Since Beverly is still married to Paul, her marriage to Big Tom was bigamous and therefore never legal. Thus, all of Big Tom's controlling shares actually belong to Tommy, the rightful heir. Since Tommy does not want to sell the shares, the deal with Zalinsky is off and since Tommy still holds Zalinsky's purchase order, the company is saved. Paul attempts to escape, but is arrested. Zalinsky admits that Tommy outplayed him and honors the large sales order. The film ends when Tommy starts his romance with Michelle and is made the president of Callahan Auto.
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