Saturday Matinee #7

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Title: Tommy Boy
Starring: Chris Farley, David Spade, Julie Warner
Narrator: uncredited
Running time: 97 minutes
Released in: 1995
Genre: comedy
Filed in: Movie reviews

Holy schnikies, this is probably the funniest movie I’ve ever seen. Definitely in the top five anyway. I was a huge fan of Chris Farley and was very sad when he died a few years ago. It just goes to show you kids, don’t do drugs.
Tommy Callahan is not the sharpest tool in the shed. “Lots of people take seven years to finish college.” Says Tommy. “That’s right,” counters his friend Richard (David Spade) “they’re called doctors.” That’s why people start getting nervous when Tommy’s father suddenly dies, leaving the fate of Callahan Auto Parts,, family owned since 1925, squarely on Tommy’s shoulders. If that isn’t bad enough, Dad’s new wife seems determined to sell the company, even if it will put the whole town out of work. To save his family business, Tommy will have to sell a record number of auto parts to meet the bank note, and keep his new step-mom from selling out.
Chris Farley and David Spade did a couple of movies together, in addition to working together on Saturday Night Live, and they had a great chemistry with each other. There are so many scenes in Tommy Boy that make me laugh out loud that I couldn’t begin to describe them all. In addition, there are some good supporting roles in this film played by Bo Derek, Rob Lowe, and Dan Akroyd. I just never get tired of this movie.

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Title: Groundhog Day
Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott
Narrator: Paul Vates
Running time: 101 minutes
Released in: 1993
Genre: comedy
Filed in: Movie reviews

Selfish, arrogant, weatherman Phil Conners doesn’t care about anybody but himself. To him, love is just something you use to get what you want from another person. But when Phil travels to nearby Punxatawnie to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities, he will have to change his way of thinking, or be trapped there forever!
Suddenly, Phil finds himself trapped, living the same day, Groundhog Day, over and over again. At first, Phil uses this unique experience to satisfy all of his own personal desires, but little by little, he begins to realize that helping others can bring happiness too. Only when he painstakingly constructs a perfectly selfless day, will he break the cycle.
Groundhog Day is another one of my all-time favorite movies. One of my favorite scenes is when Phil is sitting at the bowling alley, having a beer with a couple of the local drunks.
Phil: “What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing you did mattered?”
Ralph: “That about sums it up for me.”
This movie is a good reminder to us that we should make every day count, not by pleasing ourselves, but by helping others.

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