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Bowfinger

Cast

Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Christine Baranski View All


Crew

Frank Oz (Director), Steve Martin (Screenplay) View All

Release: Aug. 12th, 1999
Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes
On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that includes a starry-eyed ingenue, a has-been diva and a film studio gofer, he sets out to shoot a blockbuster featuring the biggest star in Hollywood, Kit Ramsey -- only without letting Ramsey know he's in the picture.
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Yoda
Overall, the craziness works through its sheer ambition, and because everyone involved sells the living daylights out of it..
Gideon58
Steve Martin scored a bullseye with Bowfinger, a smart and cleverly mounted comedy, which Martin also wrote, which stars Steve Martin as Bobby Bowfinger, a down and out Hollywood producer on the verge of going out of business who gets hold of a script to produce and wants big time action star Kit Ra....
Iroquois
There is some cleverness scattered here and there, whether it's Murphy's eager devotion to a self-help program that in no way resembles Scientology (anchored by a po-faced Terence Stamp as Murphy's contact within the organisation) or some of his more potent comments about the film industry (such as ....


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