Tommy Boy (1995)
46 %
Reviews Counted: 35 Fresh: 16 Rotten:19 Average Rating: 5.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Synopsis:
After Tommy (Chris Farley) barely graduates from college, he returns home to the Midwest where his father (Brian Dennehy), the owner of an auto parts factory, immediately employs his dumber-than-dumb son. While Tommy was away at school, his father had fallen in love with a beautiful woman... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Chris Farley, David Spade, Bo Derek, Brian Dennehy, Rob Lowe
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Reviews
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.
05/06/08 01:54 PM
If this pairing sounds like movie magic to you, we're sure you'll love the picture.
05/06/08 01:42 PM
Top Critic It's some indication of the wit involved that Farley is reduced to cracking fat jokes at his own expense.
02/09/06 03:16 AM
There’s nothing to grasp, nothing that gives off that good feeling of enjoying a comedy.
08/28/05 02:02 AM
It's not high art -- but it IS pretty damn funny, and sometimes that's more than good enough.
08/20/05 09:00 AM
Tommy Boy unspools just as you expect it to, and the comedy is as unrewarding as the story
06/09/05 12:45 PM
The most peculiar aspect of the movie is that some of it is played straight.
05/20/03 05:05 PM
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