Bowfinger

Starring: Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin Director: Frank Oz Original UK Premiere: 1999 Dvd Release: 8th May, 2006 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish Dubbed In: German

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Bowfinger is a 1999 film directed by Frank Oz. The script is by Steve Martin, who also stars in the title role. Film producer Bobby Bowfinger is extremely eager to make a film. He has a script, penned by an accountant. He has a camera operator with access to studio-owned equipment. He even has several actors who are hungry for work. None of this matters if he cant get a deal with a studio. He manages to extract a promise from a film studio executive that the executive will distribute the film if it includes action star Kit Ramsey. actors walk up & recite their lines & the camera catches Ramseys confused reactions. Ramsey misinterprets the movies sci-fi dialogue & believes hes being stalked by aliens, damaging his already-precarious mental state. Bowfinger   at the Internet Movie Database

Film-makers often remark that its just so hard to make a bad picture that few would take on the challenge if they werent so naive. Steve Martins Bobby Bowfinger is cut from that pattern, one of those sweet, indomitable operators of Hollywood who seem to be descended directly from Ed Wood . To resurrect his ramshackle existence, Bowfinger opts to film his accountants sci-fi spectacular,Chubby Rain, about aliens invading in raindrops. The snag is he needs to attach action megastar Kit Ramsey , an actor so paranoid he counts the occurrences of the letter k in scripts to uncover possible Ku Klux Klan influences. When his effort fails, Bowfinger hits on an ingenious scheme to film Ramsey without his knowledge, throwing his actors at the hapless star whenever he appears in public. Only Kit begins to believe hes being hounded by aliens for real, & runs hysterically to his guru at a Scientology-clone group called MindHead, where people walk around in fine suits wearing white pyramids on their heads. Deprived of his star, yet not to be undone, Bowfinger hires a look-alike, Jiff , to fill in. The tone of the picture is sometimes flat, rather than deadpan, but thats nitpicking. The farce is quick & engrossing, & populated with terrific performances, especially by Eddie Murphy, whose dual role as Kit & Jiff showcases his character-building gift, & by Martin, whose Bowfinger, part con man & part would-be visionary, manages to capture your sympathies. Heather Grahams would-be actress cheerfully sleeps her way to the top like she knows shes supposed to, & Christine Baranski plays her shopworn method actor with myopic self-absorption.

Eddie Murphy is an African-American comedian & actor. Murphy began his comedy career at the young age of 19, as a performer on NBC s Saturday Night Live television show. His characters include a parody of Buckwheat from the Little Rascals & of Fred Rogers. Murphy later starred in many comedies including the Beverly Hills Cop series, Trading Places & Coming to America. He is a versatile voice actor & voiced the donkey in the Shrek series & the dragon in Disney s Mulan. In many of his films, he plays multiple roles in addition to his main character. A perfect example of this is The Nutty Professor, a remake of the Jerry Lewis classic in which Murphy plays several members of the Klump family as well as Sherman Klumps arrogant alter ego, Buddy Love. His early comedy was racy, akin to Richard Pryor, whom Murphy says was the one that wanted to get into comedy. Characterized by excessive swearing & making fun of gays, singers & others, Murphy became, in a sense, the Pryor of the 1980s. Posters Of Eddie Murphy

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Stephen Glenn Martin is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, musician & composer born in Waco, Texas & raised in Orange County, California. Martin worked at the Bird Cage Theater in Knotts Berry Farm & at the Magic Shop at Disneyland as a teenager, where he developed his talents for magic, juggling, playing the banjo & creating balloon animals. Martin majored in philosophy at California State University, Long Beach, but dropped out. A girlfriend helped him get his first real job in 1967, as a comedy writer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, the show she was on as a dancer. Martin, along with the other writers for that show, won an Emmy Award in 1969. Martin also wrote for John Denver & The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour from 1972 to 1973,. He appeared at San Francisco s The Boarding House among other locations. He continued to write, earning an Emmy nomination for his work on Van Dyke & Company in 1975. In the mid- 1970s he made frequent appearances as a stand-up comedian on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Posters Of Steve Martin

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Richard Frank Oznowicz, better known as Frank Oz, is a film director, actor & puppeteer. He was born in Hereford, United Kingdom, but moved to California, United States when he was five years old with his parents. Oz is best known for his work as a puppeteer performing with Jim Henson s Muppets. His characters have included Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear & Sam the Eagle on The Muppet Show & Grover, Cookie Monster & Bert on Sesame Street, among many others. In addition to performing a variety of characters, Oz has been one of the primary collaborators responsible for the development of the Muppets over the last 30 years. Oz has performed as a Muppeteer in over 75 movies, video releases & TV specials, as well as countless other public appearances, episodes of Sesame Street & other Jim Henson series. His puppetry work spans from 1969 to the present day. Possibly Ozs most famous character is the diminutive Jedi Master Yoda from George Lucas Star Wars series. Oz performed the voice & puppet for Yoda in Star Wars films between 1980 & 2002. Yoda first appeared in 1980 s The Empire Strikes Back. Posters Of The Stepford Wives

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