What’s Aged the Best?
Opening credits; 'Luke, I'm your father' fan gag; Callahan family portraits; Rob Lowe's performance; the board-meeting old lady; Tommy and Richard singing; the bees gimmick; Spade's hair jokes; the lost-virginity speech; Brian Dennehy
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- The opening credits, the 'Luke, I'm your father' bit with the fan, and the Callahan family portraits with Farley in drag hold up as subtle comedy.
- Rob Lowe's performance has aged best; he was good in anything SNL adjacent, a comedy side unpredictable in the 1980s.
- Also listed: the old lady in the board meeting, Tommy and Richard singing, the bees gimmick, the jokes acknowledging Spade's weird hair, and the speech line about losing his virginity to R.T.'s daughter.
- Bo Derek seemed past her prime then though she was only 39, with Lowe, Farley and Spade 31; pairing her with Dennehy, 57, was accepted but kissing Lowe as a supposed son was strange; the casting is still called nailed.
- Her haircut is flagged as aged the worst for making her look older, like Alice from The Brady Bunch.
- Dennehy is incredible and overqualified, a stage legend whose Death of a Salesman history makes him a callback great salesman; serious actors going toe to toe with the bits add credibility, and he is a dead ringer for Farley. — Sean Fennessey
- An anecdote: interviewing Dennehy in Winnipeg in 2001 in brutal cold for an ESPN Bobby Knight TV movie, he got choked up about Farley; his IMDb has a lot of wins though he never became famous-famous.