Tommy Boy (1995) on Netflix
Seven years of college behind him, Tommy Callahan joins his father Big Tom's auto parts plant. When Big Tom dies, Tommy and Richard Hayden must sell brake pads to save the company.
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- Rotten Tomatoes42%
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Plot summary
Tommy Callahan Jr. attends college for seven years before he graduates and returns to Sandusky, Ohio, where his father, the widowed industrialist Big Tom Callahan, runs Callahan Auto. Big Tom gives him an executive job, shows him the plant's new brake pad division, and introduces Beverly Barrish-Burns, whom he plans to marry, along with her son Paul. Tommy also meets Michelle Brock, the sales manager and an old high school classmate. After Big Tom suffers a fatal heart attack at his wedding reception, the bank withdraws the loan it promised the new division and demands that the company's debts be settled. Tommy offers the bank his inherited shares and his house for time to sell 500,000 brake pads, and he leaves town with Big Tom's assistant Richard Hayden.
Cast
- James Blendickas Ron Gilmore
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tommy Boy (1995)
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- In May 2025 David Spade revealed that Paramount had pitched him a sequel two years previously, a story involving the children of the original lead characters, and that he rejected the idea, telling the studio a follow-up without Chris Farley would never work.
- Tommy Boy and the 1994 horror film Wes Craven's New Nightmare are both dedicated to Gregg Fonseca, who died eight months before the release of Tommy Boy; he worked on neither film, but was production designer on the first two Nightmare on Elm Street films, Coneheads and both Wayne's World films.
- In March 1994 it was reported that Saturday Night Live cast member Chris Farley had accepted a pay-or-play deal from Paramount Pictures to star in Billy the Third, from screenwriters Bonnie and Terry Turner, with Lorne Michaels set to produce.
