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Black Sheep (1996)

Genre: Comedy
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The film begins when Mike Donnelly (Chris Farley) is driving an advertisement truck to support his brother Al Donnelly's (Tim Matheson) campaign for Governor of Washington; his competition being incumbent Evelyn Tracy (Christine Ebersole). After Mike is chased by dogs while driving the truck, he crashes into a local movie theatre and gains great disspleasure from the local people. Al's manager, Roger Kovary (Timothy Carhart), advises him to get rid of Mike, but Al decides to have Mike and some other guy working for him to campaign for him in town. In the end, the man chosen to take Mike around is Steve Dodds (David Spade), who in return gets a spot on Al's staff. As Steve goes to pick up Mike, he accidentally hits a military hermit named Drake Sabitch (Gary Busey), who ends up stealing his car.

When Mike tries to stop underage kids from drinking, pictures make it look like he was supporting them, leading to his termination from the county recreation center. While packing up, he runs into a pair of thugs who set fire to the rec center, while a photographer takes incriminating pictures of Mike at the scene of the fire. However, the first cop to arrive at the scene is Robbie Mighuem (Grant Heslov), a friend of Mike's who lets him and Steve off the hook. The two take off in Mike's car, and per Kovary's instructions head for a shack in rural Garfield County. After a few incidents (Mike stapling his own hand while trying to hang a poster on a tree, Steve getting sprayed with a fire extinguisher by a bunch of local kids, and Mike falling down what could be the tallest mountain in Garfield County) they call it a night.

The next day, Steve and Mike run out of fliers, so Steve tries to get cell phone reception to order for more; while looking for a place with reception, Steve stumbles upon the home of the aforementioned Drake Sabitch, an old crashed school bus with several house implements outside and inside, such as a TV, a hammock, a grill, several weapons and more. While trying to find a high-ground to get reception on his phone, Steve accidentally loosens a rock in a pile of stones and unstables a huge boulder atop a hill overlooking their shack. concert , the two men start playing checkers and when Mike screams at Steve for the fact that he "NEVER MOVES HIS BACK ROW! EVER!", the unstable boulder on top the hill rolls down and almost completely destroys their cabin. Mike goes to the Mudhoney concert where he is looking for Al (where Mike stirred up trouble by screaming "kill whitey" while on stage) they try and watch a debate between Al and Governor Tracy, Steve and Mike sneak into Drake Sabitch's home and watch it on his TV, when Steve goes out for a leak, he is attacked by Sabitch, but is saved by Mike, who beats Sabitch in unarmed combat. Sabitch is impressed by Mike's fighting skill and becomes friends with both men.

Governor Tracy, in hopes of sabotaging Al, posts the pictures of Mike at the community center fire, ruining Al's run and making Tracy win the election. Mike notices that the voting results are wrong, since the numbers on the vote count state that there are 1800 voters in Garfield County, when in fact there are only 1500. Mike and Steve go to the Garfield County social center, where they get the names of the voters of the county in the recent election; there, Steve discovers that over half the people who voted for Tracy were dead for over ten years, proving Tracy had rigged the elections. To get this to the people, Steve and Mike take Robbie the cop's squad car, and go at full speed to Seattle, where Governor Tracy is having a victory party.

At the party, the team appears during Tracy's victory speech and the police try to arrest Mike for the arson of the community center for which is accused, however, Mike snatches a gun from one of the cops and pretends to hold Steve hostage, while Sabitch controls the crowd by threatening them with an RPG. Mike climbs up to the podium and reveals Tracy's election fraud, overturning the election results, making Al the election winner and having Tracy ousted for fraud.

Three months later; Steve is Al's new assistant (since Al had fired his former assistant, Roger, en route to the party Mike was holding hostage), Mike has got his job running the community center back and Al has improved the crime rates in Washington. As Al and Steve get into a jet to go to a meeting, Mike's tie gets caught in the jet's door and he is dragged along the air when the plane takes off and the movie ends.

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The film begins when Mike Donnelly (Chris Farley) is driving an advertisement truck to support his brother Al Donnelly's (Tim Matheson) campaign for Governor of Washington; his competition being incumbent Evelyn Tracy (Christine Ebersole). After Mike is chased by dogs while driving the truck, he crashes into a local movie theatre and gains great disspleasure from the local people. Al's manager, Roger Kovary (Timothy Carhart), advises him to get rid of Mike, but Al decides to have Mike and some other guy working for him to campaign for him in town. In the end, the man chosen to take Mike around is Steve Dodds (David Spade), who in return gets a spot on Al's staff. As Steve goes to pick up Mike, he accidentally hits a military hermit named Drake Sabitch (Gary Busey), who ends up stealing his car.

When Mike tries to stop underage kids from drinking, pictures make it look like he was supporting them, leading to his termination from the county recreation center. While packing up, he runs into a pair of thugs who set fire to the rec center, while a photographer takes incriminating pictures of Mike at the scene of the fire. However, the first cop to arrive at the scene is Robbie Mighuem (Grant Heslov), a friend of Mike's who lets him and Steve off the hook. The two take off in Mike's car, and per Kovary's instructions head for a shack in rural Garfield County. After a few incidents (Mike stapling his own hand while trying to hang a poster on a tree, Steve getting sprayed with a fire extinguisher by a bunch of local kids, and Mike falling down what could be the tallest mountain in Garfield County) they call it a night.

The next day, Steve and Mike run out of fliers, so Steve tries to get cell phone reception to order for more; while looking for a place with reception, Steve stumbles upon the home of the aforementioned Drake Sabitch, an old crashed school bus with several house implements outside and inside, such as a TV, a hammock, a grill, several weapons and more. While trying to find a high-ground to get reception on his phone, Steve accidentally loosens a rock in a pile of stones and unstables a huge boulder atop a hill overlooking their shack. concert , the two men start playing checkers and when Mike screams at Steve for the fact that he "NEVER MOVES HIS BACK ROW! EVER!", the unstable boulder on top the hill rolls down and almost completely destroys their cabin. Mike goes to the Mudhoney concert where he is looking for Al (where Mike stirred up trouble by screaming "kill whitey" while on stage) they try and watch a debate between Al and Governor Tracy, Steve and Mike sneak into Drake Sabitch's home and watch it on his TV, when Steve goes out for a leak, he is attacked by Sabitch, but is saved by Mike, who beats Sabitch in unarmed combat. Sabitch is impressed by Mike's fighting skill and becomes friends with both men.

Governor Tracy, in hopes of sabotaging Al, posts the pictures of Mike at the community center fire, ruining Al's run and making Tracy win the election. Mike notices that the voting results are wrong, since the numbers on the vote count state that there are 1800 voters in Garfield County, when in fact there are only 1500. Mike and Steve go to the Garfield County social center, where they get the names of the voters of the county in the recent election; there, Steve discovers that over half the people who voted for Tracy were dead for over ten years, proving Tracy had rigged the elections. To get this to the people, Steve and Mike take Robbie the cop's squad car, and go at full speed to Seattle, where Governor Tracy is having a victory party.

At the party, the team appears during Tracy's victory speech and the police try to arrest Mike for the arson of the community center for which is accused, however, Mike snatches a gun from one of the cops and pretends to hold Steve hostage, while Sabitch controls the crowd by threatening them with an RPG. Mike climbs up to the podium and reveals Tracy's election fraud, overturning the election results, making Al the election winner and having Tracy ousted for fraud.

Three months later; Steve is Al's new assistant (since Al had fired his former assistant, Roger, en route to the party Mike was holding hostage), Mike has got his job running the community center back and Al has improved the crime rates in Washington. As Al and Steve get into a jet to go to a meeting, Mike's tie gets caught in the jet's door and he is dragged along the air when the plane takes off and the movie ends.

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