There's something about Steve Martin that just makes me laugh.
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Bowfinger (1999)
80 %
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Reviews Counted: 106
Fresh: 85
Rotten:21
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Consensus: A witty commentary on modern film-making, with enough jokes to keep it entertaining throughout.
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: When never-has-been director Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) finds a movie script he's convinced will take him to the Oscars, he'll do anything to get the movie made--including lying to his actors, "borrowing" film and equipment from a... [More]
Starring: Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Robert Downey
Director: Frank Oz
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03/31/08
Hugely funny film that mixes knowing satire with winning stupidity, and has Martin and Murphy in form they have rarely managed in recent years.
02/27/08
Mr. Murphy chews the scenery every chance he gets and it recalls what made him such a star in the first place.
07/14/07
Preposterous and utterly self-absorbed, this has la-la land down to a tee.
06/24/06
Just watch two of the still funniest guys in the country do what they do best, without a bad script to get in the way.
12/06/05
This all has the potential to become a sidesplitting caper. ... Unfortunately, only a few of the manic scenes work.
12/06/04
[An] entertaining little comedy that should be forgiven for not living to its potential.
12/02/04
It's lively and frequently funny -- but why does it leave such a sour aftertaste?
07/15/03
Lest the movie get too saccharine (and it never does), Eddie Murphy is on hand to juice things up.
05/20/03
The movie reaches giddy, cartoonish heights, even while it carefully dodges any chance to move beyond skin-deep.
10/15/02
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.
06/18/02
Bowfinger bears the same relation to satire as reports of the weekend grosses do to journalism.
03/03/02
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