1999 · satire · hollywood · steve-martin
Bowfinger
Directed by Frank Oz1h 37m1999
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.
Our read: Bowfinger (1999) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive satire · hollywood · steve-martin entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle satire / hollywood, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- funny
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“You want sharp Hollywood satire with Eddie Murphy going gloriously big and silly.”
Skip it tonight — You need coherent plotting tonight; this gleeful scam comedy runs on chaos.
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