Tom Ryan

Tom Ryan is a main character in Scary Movie 4. He is played by actor Craig Bierko.

Bio
Tom is a dock worker working near New York City. He was once married, but he and his wife later divorced. He still gets visitation rights with his two children, Robbie Ryan and Rachel Ryan.

After the divorce, Tom acquired a house next door to Mrs. Norris, an old lady living in a haunted house on his street, becoming friendly with her new care worker, Cindy Campbell who arrives to tend for her. When robot tripods attack town, he flees with his children into the countryside, losing their car and ending up on foot, eventually getting involved in a skirmish between the aliens and the military. When the aliens try abducting his daughter, he gets abducted as well, getting reunited with Cindy in one of the tripods. The aliens soon take interest in them to torture them, forcing Tom to endure school-yard level indignities in front of his kids before the aliens actually start threatening his life, but Cindy saves his life after finding a key to turn off the torture devices. Seeing the love between them is genuine, the aliens relent and let them go.

After escaping, Tom pursues his relationship with Cindy, and later while on television, he is hailed on Oprah for defeating the aliens, but he actually announces his love for Cindy over-enthusiastically and goes off on a crazy psychotic binge.