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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.

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    Sandusky, 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.

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    The 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.

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    Chicago

    Somewhere between a road-rage deer and a gas-station fireball, the big sweet oaf finally finds his salesman's pitch.

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    Sandusky, Ohio

    He comes home with the orders that save Callahan Auto, and his father's legacy, at the very last possible moment.

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