Bowfinger

Name: Bowfinger
Released: 1999-8-13
Cast: Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Christine Baranski, Terence Stamp

Bowfinger

PG-13
1h 36m
1999

81%

age 14+

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How does Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin), Hollywood's least successful director, get Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy), Hollywood's biggest star, in his ultra low-budget film? Any way he can. With an ingenious scheme and the help of Kit's eager and nerdy brother Jiff, an ambitious and sexy wannabe (Heather Graham) and an over-the-hill diva (Christine Baranski), Bowfinger sets out to trick Kit Ramsey into the performance of a lifetime. Enjoy the fun with Eddie Murphy and Steve Martin - together for the first time in the hit comedy Bowfinger.

Director:

Frank Oz

Producer:

Brian Grazer

Writer:

Steve Martin

Cast:

Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Christine Baranski, Terence Stamp

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

81%

Critics Consensus: A witty commentary on modern film-making, with enough jokes to keep it entertaining throughout.

Reviews

TIME Magazine

Richard Schickel

The best thing about Bowfinger is the way the script by Steve Martin is tooled to his own and Murp...

This is enjoyable but thin, which is no doubt what was intended.

August 16, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Time Out

Preposterous and utterly self-absorbed, this has la-la land down to a tee.

June 21, 2017

San Francisco Chronicle

Bob Graham

Martin the writer plants some wicked barbs in Hollywood's rear end about creative financing of mov...

August 15, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Globe and Mail

Rick Groen

This is his first screenplay since L.A. Story, yet you get the sense that Martin has lost some of...

June 17, 2017

Common Sense Media

age 14+

Common Sense Says

Entertaining, great actors but not a home run.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that the movie has a number of sexual references. The character played by Heather Graham has (offscreen) sex with just about every other character (male and female) purely to advance her career. While this is played for humor, without any suggestion that she is being exploited (quite the other way around), parents may want to talk to kids who see this movie about this behavior, as well as the choices Bowfinger himself makes by cheating, stealing, blackmailing, and lying to get his movie made.