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. When he fails to get a major star for his bargain basement film, he decides to shoot the film secretly around him.
24 September 1964, Siena, Tuscany, Italy
29 January 1970, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
2 May 1952, Buffalo, New York, USA
9 September 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2 November 1973, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 June 1972, Seoul, South Korea
1 November 1964, Long Beach, California, USA
14 August 1945, Waco, Texas, USA
10 February 1970, San Francisco, California, USA
12 November 1952, Detroit, Michigan, USA
22 November 1971, Panama City, Panama
25 May 1970, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA
26 February 1977, Petaluma, California, USA
April 15, 2016
Bowfinger (1999), Steve Martin's tribute to shoestring filmmaking and big-screen dreams, is a loving lampoon that gamely straddles the chasm between cynical con-artistry and benign innocence.
June 24, 2006
Preposterous and utterly self-absorbed, this has la-la land down to a tee.
June 18, 2002
Martin the writer plants some wicked barbs in Hollywood's rear end about creative financing of movies and hoarding of profits, the art of the deal, hipper-than-thou attitudes and exploitation.
February 02, 2009
The best thing about Bowfinger is the way the script by Steve Martin is tooled to his own and Murphy's comic strengths.
March 19, 2002
This is his first screenplay since L.A. Story, yet you get the sense that Martin has lost some of the artistic aspiration he once brought to the movie business. This effort feels like it's just business.
July 23, 2007
A showcase for wit.
July 14, 2007
Mr. Murphy chews the scenery every chance he gets and it recalls what made him such a star in the first place.
February 27, 2008
Hugely funny film that mixes knowing satire with winning stupidity, and has Martin and Murphy in form they have rarely managed in recent years.
December 22, 2010
Entertaining, great actors but not a home run.
February 04, 2007
Murphy is wonderful ... The plot is mechanical, clunky and boring.
February 27, 2008
This is enjoyable but thin, which is no doubt what was intended.
January 01, 2000
Hilarious, good-hearted.
