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Tommy Boy

By Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner - Film

FilmScreen

Roles

  • Tommy Boy - Young Adult (20-35), Male

About this piece

Tommy Boy' tries to sell brake pads to an executive with a crazy speech

Summary

Tommy Boy Callahan (Chris Farley) is a D+ student who just graduated from college after attending for 7 years. He starts working for his father who owns an auto parts plant. His father, however, dies the day he marries the beautiful Beverly (Bo Derek). The business is threatened unless its new money burning brake pad division turns out a success and they manage to sell the new brake pads. Tommy Boy suggests to the executives of his company to let him travel the country with Richard (David Spade), his father's right hand man, and let him try to sell the pads himself. In this funny monologue Tommy Boy and Richard are at a meeting with a potential buyer. Richard gives him the usual pitch and when the executive tells him to make it simpler, Tommy Boy steps him, giving this manic sales pitch using models cars and a lighter....

Tone

PersuasiveInsane

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