Synopsis
To save the family business, two ne’er-do-well traveling salesmen hit the road with disastrously funny consequences.
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Cast
- Chris FarleyThomas 'Tommy' Callahan III
- David SpadeRichard Hayden
- Brian DennehyThomas 'Big Tom' Callahan
- Bo DerekBeverly Barish, aka Beverly Burns
- Dan AykroydRay Zalinsky
- Julie WarnerMichelle Brock
- Sean McCannFrank Rittenhauer
- Zach GrenierTed Reilly
- James BlendickRon Gilmore
- Paul GreenbergSkittish Student
Recommendations
- 80
Los Angeles Times
Farley reminds us just how liberating an agile, uninhibited, out-sized comedian can be in these times of caloric restraint...Tommy Boy is a good belly laugh of a movie. - 70
IGN
Tommy Boy is one of those films that you can watch over and over again. It seems to be on every "Buddy Movie" list and it's always out at Blockbuster. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
If this pairing sounds like movie magic to you, we're sure you'll love the picture. - 50
Variety
Chris Farley's first star turn is loaded with fat jokes, excrement gags and other banality, but also offers more goofy charm than most of its recent brethren -- which is to say, not much. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
Just when you thought you’d erased the memory of Adam Sandler in Billy Madison playing a slobbo idiot who must prove he’s worthy of taking over his father’s business, along comes Chris Farley playing a slobbo ; idiot who must prove he’s worthy of taking over his father’s business. Yet this movie, unlike Sandler’s fiasco, does at least have a few scuzzy laughs. - 40
Empire
Against the odds of a feeble script and uninspired direction the duo do, in fact, grow on you, and there are a smattering of silly laughs, most notably a sequence involving a large road kill stashed in the back seat. - 40
Washington Post
Some of it is funny -- particularly the physical comedy. Most of it is not. - 30
The New York Times
Their best moments are some throwaway routines; they weep in the car as they sing along to the Carpenters' "Superstar." More often, the movie goes for stale, obvious sight gags like Tommy's slow destruction of Richard's precious car. As mismatched-buddy teams go, Felix and Oscar have nothing to worry about here.
