Tommy Boy is a 1995 American buddy comedy film directed by Peter Segal, written by Bonnie and Terry Turner, produced by Lorne Michaels, and starring former Saturday Night Live castmates and close friends Chris Farley and David Spade.

[4][5] After seven years at college, friendly but dim-witted Tommy Callahan III barely graduates from Marquette University and returns to his hometown of Sandusky, Ohio.

Meanwhile, sales manager Michelle Brock, a high school classmate of Tommy's, notices Beverly and Paul kissing romantically; they reveal themselves as married con artists with criminal records.

However, after witnessing Tommy persuade a surly waitress to serve him at a restaurant after the kitchen has closed, Richard suggests he use his skill at reading people to make sales.

In Chicago, they briefly meet with Zalinsky, but he tells them he desires the reputation connected with the Callahan brand, planning to shutter the company and lay off its workers, which, in turn, would financially ruin the town.

Tommy devises a plan: dressed as a suicide bomber by using road flares, he attracts the attention of a live television news crew and, along with Michelle and Richard, forces his way back into the board room.

In a final move of pure persuasion, Tommy quotes Zalinsky's own advertising slogan, claiming he stands for the "American working man."

Although Zalinsky nullifies the purchase order as he will soon own Callahan Auto, Michelle arrives with Paul's police records, which include outstanding warrants for fraud.

Sailing in his dinghy on a lake, Tommy tells his father's spirit he will continue his legacy at Callahan and says he must go ashore to have dinner with Michelle and her family, having ignited a relationship with her.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Though it benefits from the comic charms of its two leads, Tommy Boy too often feels like a familiar sketch stretched thin.

Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi of the Broomfield Enterprise said the film was "Farley at his best",[3] and Scott Weinberg of DVDTalk.com said that it was "pretty damn funny".