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Release Date:
31 March 1995 (USA)
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Tagline:
If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards.
Plot:
An incompetent, immature, and dimwitted heir to an auto parts factory must save the business to keep it out of the hands of his new, con-artist relatives and big business. full summary | add synopsis
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1 win
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Commercial spoofs take shots at DirecTV's Chris Farley spot
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Spade -- No Regrets on Farley Direct TV Ad
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(From AOL - TVSquad. 4 November 2009, 2:02 PM, PST)
Spade -- No Regrets on Farley Direct TV Ad
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Great Comedy Everyone Needs to See
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Chris Farley | ... | Tommy |
 | David Spade | ... | Richard |
 | Brian Dennehy | ... | Big Tom |
 | Bo Derek | ... | Beverly |
 | Dan Aykroyd | ... | Zalinsky |
 | Julie Warner | ... | Michelle |
 | Sean McCann | ... | Rittenhauer |
 | Zach Grenier | ... | Reilly |
 | James Blendick | ... | Gilmore |
| Clinton Turnbull | ... | Young Tommy |
| Ryder Britton | ... | Young Richard |
 | Paul Greenberg | ... | Skittish Student |
| Graeme Millington | ... | Frat Boy |
 | Michael Cram | ... | Frat Boy |
| Dean Marshall | ... | Frat Boy |
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Rated PG-13 for sex-related humor, some drug content and nudity.
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97 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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In the scene where they are at the wedding reception for "Big" Tom Callahan you can see Chris Farley's brother sitting to Chris's left when Big Tom asks Tommy Boy to help him out with the song.
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Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Tommy runs into the glass door after a successful sale, he leaves his makeup imprint on the glass.
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Quotes:
Tommy:
I l-left a message.
Richard Hayden: A message? What number did you call?
Tommy: Two, four, niner, five, six, seven...
Richard Hayden: I can't hear you, you're trailing off and did I catch a niner in there? Were you calling from a walkie-talkie?
Tommy: No, it was cordless.
Richard Hayden: You know what? Don't. Not here, not now.
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Richard Hayden: A message? What number did you call?
Tommy: Two, four, niner, five, six, seven...
Richard Hayden: I can't hear you, you're trailing off and did I catch a niner in there? Were you calling from a walkie-talkie?
Tommy: No, it was cordless.
Richard Hayden: You know what? Don't. Not here, not now.
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Movie Connections:
References "The Brady Bunch" (1969)
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Soundtrack:
My Lucky Day
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This is a comedy in which Thomas 'Tommy' Callahan III (Chris Farley) who is a slow-witted, clumsy guy who recently graduated college after attending for seven years. His father, Thomas 'Big Tom' Callahan II (Brian Dennehy), owns an auto parts factory in Ohio. When Tommy arrives back home, he finds he has a position at the factory waiting for him. His dad also introduces Tommy to the new brake pad division of the factory and to Tommy's soon-to-be stepmother, Beverly Barish-Burns (Bo Derek), and her supposed son Paul Barish (Rob Lowe). But when Big Tom dies, the factory threatens to go under unless the new brake pads are to be sold. Therefore, Tommy must go on the road to sell them, along with the assistance of Richard Hayden (David Spade), Big Tom's right-hand man. Beverly and Paul who are con artists and also husband and wife who try to con Tommy and his family out of the company's money. Tommy and Richard travel all over the Midwestern United States trying to sell a half a million brake pads. If they don't sell the half a million brake pads, the company will be sold to Ray Zalinsky (Dan Aykroyd). This movie is full of great laughs and everybody will enjoy it. If Chris Farley was alive today, I bet there would be many more great and funny movies like this one. There are plenty of great passages that I hear everyday from this movie. I have seen it so many times I have lost count. I pretty much know it by heart. It is that great of a movie. Everybody needs to see it.