Tommy Boy (1995)

My Review

“Tommy Boy” is a perfect vehicle for the physical comedy of Chris Farley, who plays a young man inheriting his father’s business with the intention to run the place. Unfortunately, his step-mother and step-brother have different ideas, like enriching themselves. The comedy and drama proceeds from there. Director Peter Segal (“Naked Gun Thirty-Three and a Third: The Final Insult” 1994) and screenwriters Bonny Turner and Terry Turner have excellent material for Farley and David Spade to work with in what is also a buddy film.

The supporting cast includes Bo Derek, Brian Dennehy, Julie Warner, Rob Lowe, Dan Aykroyd, Sean McCann, Zach Grenier, James Blendick, and William Patterson Dunlop. The laughs come fast and furious and a mile a minute in the very watchable “Tommy Boy,” a success at the box office for producer Lorne Michaels and Paramount Pictures. It was primarily shot in Toronto and Los Angeles.