Bowfinger
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
22 July 1938, Stepney, London, England, UK
4 September 1968, Uganda
29 January 1970, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
25 May 1970, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, 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.
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.
June 24, 2006
Preposterous and utterly self-absorbed, this has la-la land down to a tee.
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.
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.
February 27, 2008
This is enjoyable but thin, which is no doubt what was intended.
January 01, 2000
Hilarious, good-hearted.
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.
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 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.
July 23, 2007
A showcase for wit.
