Black Sheep is a 1996 comedy film, directed by Penelope Spheeris (Wayne's World) and starring the comedy duo Chris Farley and David Spade. The film portrays a political contest in which the candidate deals with unwanted and incompetent help from his brother. Co-starring are Tim Matheson, Christine Ebersole, and Gary Busey. Chris Owen and Fred Wolf have cameo appearances, and Farley's real-life brothers Kevin Farley and John P. Farley appear as tw...
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Black Sheep is a 1996 comedy film, directed by Penelope Spheeris (Wayne's World) and starring the comedy duo Chris Farley and David Spade. The film portrays a political contest in which the candidate deals with unwanted and incompetent help from his brother. Co-starring are Tim Matheson, Christine Ebersole, and Gary Busey. Chris Owen and Fred Wolf have cameo appearances, and Farley's real-life brothers Kevin Farley and John P. Farley appear as two security guards at an MTV Rock the Vote concert. The film grossed $32.3 million during its U.S. theatrical run.
This is the last film that David Spade and Chris Farley co-starred in and is often unfavorably compared to the 1995 film Tommy Boy. In fact, famed film critic Gene Siskel stated that Black Sheep was one of only two movies he ever walked out on in 26 years (Siskel stated several times that he did not like Farley and thought of him as a terrible actor). In both films, Farley plays the lovable doofus and Spade plays his wise-cracking...
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