<P> After seven years at college , Thomas R. `` Tommy '' Callahan III ( Chris Farley ) barely graduates from Marquette University and returns to his hometown of Sandusky , Ohio . His father , industrialist and widower Thomas R. `` Big Tom '' Callahan , Jr . ( Brian Dennehy ) , gives him an executive job at the family 's auto parts plant , Callahan Auto . In addition to the new job and office , Big Tom reveals that he plans to marry Beverly Barrish - Burns ( Bo Derek ) , a woman he had met at a fat farm , and that her son Paul ( Rob Lowe ) will become Tommy 's new stepbrother . At the wedding , Big Tom suddenly dies of a heart attack . After the funeral , doubting the future of the company without Big Tom , the bank reneges on promises of a loan for a new brake pad division and seeks immediate payment of Callahan Auto 's debts . Ray Zalinsky ( Dan Aykroyd ) , owner and operator of rival automotive parts company Zalinsky Auto Parts in Chicago , offers to buy them out while the company 's shares are high , but Tommy suggests a deal : he will let the bank hold his inherited shares and house in exchange for helping to sell the new brake pads . The bank agrees , but they also want the company to prove it still has viability by selling 500,000 brake pads . If they fail , the bank will foreclose , but if they succeed , the bank will underwrite Big Tom 's brake pad venture . Tommy volunteers to go on a cross-country sales trip with his father 's sycophantic assistant , Richard Hayden ( David Spade ) , a childhood acquaintance who has a particularly antagonistic relationship with Tommy . </P>
<P> After seven years at college , Thomas R. `` Tommy '' Callahan III ( Chris Farley ) barely graduates from Marquette University and returns to his hometown of Sandusky , Ohio . His father , industrialist and widower Thomas R. `` Big Tom '' Callahan , Jr . ( Brian Dennehy ) , gives him an executive job at the family 's auto parts plant , Callahan Auto . In addition to the new job and office , Big Tom reveals that he plans to marry Beverly Barrish - Burns ( Bo Derek ) , a woman he had met at a fat farm , and that her son Paul ( Rob Lowe ) will become Tommy 's new stepbrother . At the wedding , Big Tom suddenly dies of a heart attack . After the funeral , doubting the future of the company without Big Tom , the bank reneges on promises of a loan for a new brake pad division and seeks immediate payment of Callahan Auto 's debts . Ray Zalinsky ( Dan Aykroyd ) , owner and operator of rival automotive parts company Zalinsky Auto Parts in Chicago , offers to buy them out while the company 's shares are high , but Tommy suggests a deal : he will let the bank hold his inherited shares and house in exchange for helping to sell the new brake pads . The bank agrees , but they also want the company to prove it still has viability by selling 500,000 brake pads . If they fail , the bank will foreclose , but if they succeed , the bank will underwrite Big Tom 's brake pad venture . Tommy volunteers to go on a cross-country sales trip with his father 's sycophantic assistant , Richard Hayden ( David Spade ) , a childhood acquaintance who has a particularly antagonistic relationship with Tommy . </P>
who plays beverly 's son in tommy boy
who plays beverly 's son in tommy boy
Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe