Article: `Tommy Boy': `SNL' on the big screen

TOMMY BOY

Directed by: Peter Segal

Screenplay by: Bonnie & Terry Turner and Fred Wolf

Starring: Chris Farley, David Spade, Julie Warner, Bo

Derek, Brian Dennehy, Rob Lowe, Dan Aykroyd

Playing at: Cheri, suburbs

Rated: PG-13 (sex-related humor, some drug content and

nudity)

"Tommy Boy" is yet another "Saturday Night Live" movie spinoff, this one featuring Chris Farley, the one who specializes in the manic eye-popping blowfish look, forever seeming about to explode. It had been named "Fat Chance." But, anticipating the massed fury of the calorically challenged, Paramount went with the sentimental "Tommy Boy" instead. Fans will like it, and nobody will accuse it of ...

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