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 bouncers.

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 the first movie he ever walked out on in 25 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 acquaintance. In one of his Spade in America sketches on Saturday Night Live, Spade (with the help of Teri Hatcher) made fun of Black Sheep, saying, "maybe you saw it the first time, when it was called Tommy Boy."

Many scenes in the film were filmed in Buckley, Washington.

Black Sheep is a New Zealand made comedy/horror film directed by Jonathan King and made in a similar style to Peter Jackson's early films such as Bad Taste and Braindead.

North American distribution rights have been acquired by The Weinstein Company and IFC Films. The Weinstein Company released the film on DVD on October 9th through Genius Products.

Special effects for the film were handled by Weta Workshop.

Special effects were done by Weta Workshops, the same crew who did the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Just before Mike (Mick Rose) is attacked by a killer sheep, he is seen reading "The Penguin History of New Zealand", a well known book written by the late Dr Michael King, the father of "Black Sheep" director Jonathan King.

WILHELM SCREAM: While the people at Angus's speech are being attacked by the sheep, two men try to get into a car, and the guy on the passenger side gets pulled down by a sheep and screams.

Comedy about the prospective Washington State Governor Al Donnelly (Matheson) whose only stumbling block on the road to power is his embarrassing younger brother Mike (Farley). To keep him out of mischief, Al forces one of his aides, Steve Dodds (Spade) to keep an eye on him during the election. However, this is easier said than done... Written by Jonathan Broxton

Finally, a movie for all the village idiots.