Peter Segal · 1995 · road
Peter Segal's 1995 comedy, the definitive Chris Farley vehicle. After his father dies, good-hearted screwup Tommy Callahan takes to the road across the Midwest with his exasperated straight man Richard, trying to sell enough brake pads to save the family auto-parts business in Sandusky, Ohio, and everyone's jobs along with it.
- 1Sandusky, Ohio
Sweet, dim Tommy Callahan inherits his late father's auto-parts company and must sell half a million brake pads to save it and the whole town's jobs.
- 2The Midwest
He hits the road with the long-suffering Richard, botching sales call after sales call across the Rust Belt in a slowly disintegrating car.
- 3Chicago
Somewhere between a road-rage deer and a gas-station fireball, the big sweet oaf finally finds his salesman's pitch.
- 4Sandusky, Ohio
He comes home with the orders that save Callahan Auto, and his father's legacy, at the very last possible moment.