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	Bowfinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bowfinger is a 1999 film directed by Frank Oz.
		Film producer Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) is extremely eager to make a film, he's saved up for it his entire life.
		Actors walk up and recite their lines and the camera catches Ramsey's confused reactions, believing for most of the movie that Ramsey is method acting, but Ramsey misinterprets the movie's sci-fi dialogue and believes he's being stalked by aliens, damaging his already-precarious mental state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bowfinger (248 words)

	Bowfinger
		Bowfinger asks his accountant, Afrim (Adam Alexi-Malle), to write a script that will hopefully have enough appeal and originality to boost his career.
		Bowfinger has the equipment hidden from view, and he films Ramsey's reaction, but he also shoot various other scenes to splice them into the final cut.
		Bowfinger isn't simply trying to make us laugh (which it does), but to illustrate how a successful movie can be made by using little money and imaginative editing.
	www.geocities.com /~moviecritic/reviews/b/bowfinger.html (833 words)

	Bowfinger . Weekly Alibi . 08-16-99
		Bowfinger can't actually provide the star, so he does the next best thing: With cameras rolling, he and his actors stalk Ramsey in the hopes that the star's natural reactions to the oddball skits that the actors perform around him will be good enough to use in the film.
		Bowfinger is a shallow, deceitful man. Despite his lack of talent or taste, we're supposed to empathize with his dream of filmmaking -- much like the lead in Ed Wood.
		Bowfinger is such a sleazeball that he doesn't tell his actors Ramsey is not a willing participant in Chubby Rain, instead inventing some cockamamie story about Ramsey's unique version of method acting.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/alibi/b/bowfinger1.html (639 words)

	Bowfinger (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As Bowfinger is just getting started, while the cast and crew follow Kit around constantly, the film is at its best, bringing strong laughs, and snappy dialogue- but this is where everything tumbles downhill.
		Baranski is the standout here in Bowfinger, as she turns the character that is given only two dimensions by the screenplay, and forces it to three.
		Bowfinger isn't the usual Eddie Murphy material, as Steve Martin is the main focus, but Murphy does his share to add to the mediocrity of the film.
	members.aol.com /DeWyNGaLe/Bowfinger.html (866 words)

	AudioRevolution.com DVD Review of Bowfinger
		Bowfinger has a little cluster of hangers-on who hope he might be their own ticket to fame and fortune.
		Bowfinger finds his way to Ramsey's house, but is (literally) tossed out before he's made his pitch.
		Bowfinger is the kind of sharpster whose scams work only on those who more or less want to go along with his schemes in the first place, but fortunately for him, that's exactly who he's dealing with.
	www.avrev.com /dvd/revs/bowfinger.shtml (1092 words)

	BOWFINGER
		Bowfinger lies to his cast and crew about Kit wanting to be in their movie, and then decides to include Ramsey in the movie without his permission.
		Bowfinger uses a rubber band to hold his dog's legs together (the pooch is sleeping on his back with them spread into the air).
		Bowfinger and Daisy kiss with her making some aroused sounds as he lies on top of her and continues to kiss her.
	www.screenit.com /movies/1999/bowfinger.html (2720 words)

	Bowfinger Movie Review
		Martin stars as Bobby Bowfinger, a Roger Corman-wannabe on the cusp of fifty and desperate for some success as a producer, quality of the projects be damned.
		Bowfinger latches onto the idea immediately, and convinces his troupe of actor friends to appear in the film, based on the lie that America’s top box office draw, Kit Ramsey (Murphy), has agreed to star.
		Bowfinger’s main flaw is a plot twist that has an insubstantial aftermath.
	www.killermovies.com /b/bowfinger/reviews/bcx.html (726 words)

	Coach Patton's Reviews: Bowfinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bobby Bowfinger has a plan of boldness and madness: being a low-rent movie producer (and he knows it), he will make a film with a top Hollywood action star, and the star won't even know he’s acting in the picture.
		Bowfinger's actors and crew want to believe him, because this is as close as they'll ever get to being in a movie.
		Bobby Bowfinger is stuck on the very bottom of the Hollywood Totem Pole, with a cadre of actors in his “repertory” company even more hapless than he is.Examples: His screenplay is by his Iranian accountant Afrim (Adam Alexi-Malle).
	www.mrchuckhall.com /Coach_Patton_Movie_Reviews/Bowfinger (982 words)

	Review: Bowfinger (1999)
		One minute Bowfinger is tying his dog's hind feet together, the next he's talking his way out of a big-time ticket by enlisting the cop and his car in the movie being shot.
		This Bowfinger guy is charming because he's a con-man with a vision, a smart-ass who's sincere and dedicated to the art form he's been preparing for all his life.
		Finally, Bowfinger's dog Betsy is a big help in one scene in particular, when the director needs the sound of high heels (which are attached to the pooch's front paws!) in a scene in which Kit is being followed through a parking garage.
	www.movie-page.com /reviews/b/bowfinger_b.htm (908 words)

	Review: Bowfinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bowfinger is the latest entry into this semi-elite group.
		There's no doubt that the character of Bobby Bowfinger (played with pizzazz by Martin) is modeled on schlockmeister Ed Wood, whose motion picture legacy is a series of films that could fit snugly on just about anyone's all-time Worst 10 list.
		Not only does Bowfinger have Wood's enthusiasm for the movie-making process, but he shares the real-life director's boundless inventiveness and general lack of talent.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/b/bowfinger.html (842 words)

	JoBlo reviews the movie "Bowfinger"
		Bowfinger decides to shoot the movie anyway, by secretly following Kit around with cameras, and shooting his scenes without his knowledge.
		Bowfinger is hands down the best thing either Eddie Murphy or Steve Martin has done in years.
		Bowfinger was more of a film poking fun at itself and the acting community.
	www.joblo.com /bowfinger.htm (1562 words)

	Movie Review - Bowfinger
		Bowfinger is a comedy, which details the wacky efforts of a loser producer/director, Bobby Bowfinger, and his crew as they try to create a hit film with a less-than shoestring budget and an "A" list star who has no idea he is being filmed.
		Bowfinger has a dog named Betsy that is seen throughout the film doing very mild dog behaviors such as lying on her back on the couch or walking A to B. This action was cued by the trainer using verbal and hand commands.
		There is an unusual bit of animal action in a parking garage where Bowfinger puts high heels on Betsy's front paws and the dog runs slowly from A to B. The trainer placed the small high heels on the dog's paws using extra safety straps and cued it with verbal and hand commands.
	www.ahafilm.info /movies/moviereviews.phtml?fid=45 (168 words)

	Review: Bowfinger (1999)
		In his excitement, Bowfinger manages to find a big Hollywood Producer (Robert Downey Jr.) to show him the script and the producer tells him, "get Kit Ramsey for the part and you have a deal".
		So instead of letting his crew down, Bowfinger decides to film Ramsey without his knowing and informs the crew that Ramsey's oddball antics are "the way he works, he's a professional".
		BOWFINGER is a very enjoyable film, sure it wasn't the best comedy of the summer (insert: AMERICAN PIE here) but it is good fun, in fact, this may be the jump-start that both Murphy and Martin have been looking for.
	www.movie-page.com /reviews/b/bowfinger.htm (717 words)

	FILM REVIEW: Bowfinger -- A con to be proud of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Instead, Bowfinger sends his actors out to interact with bankable box-office draw Kit Ramsey in a series of filmed encounters.
		Bowfinger (Steve Martin) depends on several people to pull off his genial plan.
		Last, but not least, is Betsy, Bowfinger’s dog, who is instrumental in filming a spooky scene in a parking garage.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V119/N33/Bowfinger.33a.html (636 words)

	BOWFINGER
		He collects a script from his "receptionist-accountant" and assembles a crew including an ingénue off the buss from Ohio, illegals running from immigration officials, a camera man who "borrows" the camera and exotic cars from the lot where he works as a property grunge, and two old cronies to be the supporting cast.
		In another sequence, Bowfinger’s dog is wearing high heals on his front feet to make the ominous clicking sound of an invisible pursuer in an underground parking garage.
		While ostensibly the story of Bowfinger and his drive to make his movie, the story carries a bunch of sub-plots, which are never brought to completion.
	www.cinemasense.com /Reviews/bowfinger.htm (716 words)

	village voice > film > Bowfinger; Chabrol and Oshima by J. Hoberman
		Bowfinger, the character Steve Martin plays in the new comedy of the same name, is a particularly contemporary figure—the ridiculously persistent independent filmmaker.
		Bowfinger opens with its crackbrained hero hunkered down in his dank Hollywood bungalow, surrounded by tacky memorabilia, dodging bill collectors and plotting how to produce Chubby Rain, the moronic extraterrestrial- invasion script written by his even more dim-witted accountant.
		Although Bowfinger suggests that the whole desire to make movies is at best self-serving and at worst absurd, there were other ambitions back when the New Wave was new—witness the current revivals of two precociously brilliant efforts, Claude Chabrol's Les Bonnes Femmes and Nagisa Oshima's Cruel Story of Youth (both 1960).
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/9932/hoberman.php (1058 words)

	Bowfinger Movie Review by Anthony Leong
		Schlockmeister movie director Bobby Bowfinger (Martin) is at the end of his rope as the story opens, with his phone about to disconnected by ATandT and his employees are about to walk out due to lack of work.
		Undeterred, Bowfinger decides to shoot the picture without Ramsey's knowledge, having his actors surreptitiously go up to the marquee star to say their lines, all while being filmed by a hidden camera.
		However, what Bowfinger doesn't know is that Ramsey is haunted by paranoid delusions in which he sees conspiracies at play all around him, from white actors getting all the best catchphrases to aliens secretly reading his brainwaves.
	www.mediacircus.net /bowfinger.html (849 words)

	Film Blather: Bowfinger
		Martin is Bobby Bowfinger, a man with lifelong, so far unrealized dreams of making a movie, who has kept his actress friend from taking many promising opportunities with his hopes of making a Hollywood picture.
		Bowfinger tells them that Ramsey's acting style dictates that he never socially interact with his co-stars.
		Bowfinger, as a whole, is a very, very funny movie but even during the the times when the jokes take a break it's still entertaining because unlike a lot of otherwise funny comedies it has a legitimate plot and characters we can care about.
	www.ultimate-movie.com /bowfinger.html (710 words)

	DVD Review - Bowfinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Although I have to admit I did not go to watch "Bowfinger" in theaters, the trailers I saw on TV and running in front of other movies, piqued my interest for the film by all means.
		Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) is running his own production company in Hollywood but the term is in exaggeration in terms.
		Universal has created a great DVD for this film, so make sure to give it a try next time you look for a down-and-out funny comedy that is based more on the traditional art form rather than the ultra-hip romantic comedies we have seen so many of in recent times.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/bowfinger.shtml (1181 words)

	Flak Magazine: Review of Bowfinger, 8-29-99
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		Many have dissed Bowfinger for not being “as funny as it could have been,” by which they mean that it’s not a non-stop hilarity machine like There’s Something About Mary.
		Bowfinger actually reminded me of nothing so much as The (original) Muppet Movie, with its lovable losers caravaning to each successive misadventure and coming to care about one another more along the way.
	www.flakmag.com /film/bowfinger.html (435 words)

	"Bowfinger" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		Bowfinger uses his power of persuasion to make the Sci-Fi "Chubby Rain", a script about aliens invading Earth in raindrops.
		Bowfinger and his script are violently (I mean it) rejected by Kit.
		Bowfinger himself sleeps with Graham and steals her credit card, then smuggles illegal immigrants into the country to be his film crew.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/pre2000/i-bowfinger.html (951 words)

	The Phantom Tollbooth - Movies Review e'zine
		Steve Martin is Bowfinger, a small-time and somewhat sleazy movie producer who's promised his loyal lackeys that they're going to make a picture together.
		One particularly fine shot occurs when Bowfinger is chasing Ramsey down the expressway with his camera hidden in a camouflage of foliage.
		Bowfinger isn't the funniest movie of the year or even of the summer; but it's a sweet comedy that both tells a good story and makes you chuckle.
	www.tollbooth.org /movies/bowfinger.html (969 words)

	bowfinger.net
		First up is support from Bowfinger, a Luton band that take the shamelessly bubbly pop hooks of a band as commercial as McFly, add an extra helping of synthesisers, and a large amount of energy.
		They would have sounded like Bowfinger, who are, of course, from Luton, which may explain the fact that on top of the Madchester versus Clash-type sound they craft, there’s also a Thin Lizzy lilt at times.
		Bowfinger then strapped on their electric guitars and turned up their amps for their ‘rockier’ set and their brand of quirky indie-pop went down a treat.
	www.bowfinger.net (1392 words)

	Jahozafat.com - Bowfinger Quotes all in Wavs & MP3s Sounds
		Bowfinger: We have our actors walk up to him and say their lines, and he's in our movie.
		Bowfinger: Well I was reading it on the way over, I hope you don't mind.
		Bowfinger: This is where you go to sacrafice, learn your craft, and work hard.
	www.jahozafat.com /Movies/Bowfinger.shtml (578 words)

	Bowfinger
		Bowfinger's original music is by David Newman who, after a year off following the popular and Oscar-nominated Anastasia, returns to the scoring fray with a score which could be best described as being his take on the super cool Lalo Schifrin music of the 60s and 70s.
		Performed by the "Bowfinger Band" consisting of two guitars, bass, sax, trumpet, keyboards and drums, five of the six cuts on the CD solidly adhere to this style of strutting, self-assured music, which grooves along for 15 electrified minutes.
		Bowfinger is certainly not your usual film score, and fans of Newman's pure orchestral works might not embrace this one with equally open arms.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /bowfincd.htm (797 words)

	dallasobserver.com \| \| Film \| Pull my Bowfinger \| 1999-08-12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As dreams go, Bowfinger's is not a lofty one, but if you happen to be as far down on the entertainment-industry status ladder as Bowfinger, you don't allow yourself to dream too big.
		Bowfinger certainly doesn't represent his worst work, but it is far from the inspired insanity of his best; he seems to be going through the manic motions.
		with the latter in Bowfinger is all to Lawrence's disfavor.
	www.dallasobserver.com /issues/1999-08-12/film.html (938 words)

	LIGHT VIEWS FILM REVIEW: BOWFINGER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sharply written by Steve Martin and smartly directed by Frank Oz, "Bowfinger" is the perfect antidote to the end of the summer blues.
		Bowfinger's plan is to follow Ramsey around with a film crew, and have his actors interact when him without his knowledge.
		Bowfinger convinces the actors that Ramsey is such a perfectionist that he doesn't want any contact with them until their scene together.
	www.lightviews.com /bowfinger.htm (602 words)

	Bowfinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bowfinger is hailed as being a fresh new look at comedy.
		Bowfinger gets a great script and bluffs his way into making a movie.
		What Bowfinger does is to have the actors walk up to Kit and say their lines.
	movies.pnc.com.au /bowfinger.html (734 words)

	Review: Bowfinger
		Bowfinger is not only a sharp script penned by Martin, but it is a celebration of stupidity.
		It concerns Bobby Bowfinger, an Ed Wood-esque producer with credits like "The Yugo: A Practical And Affordable Car." He's been on the fringes of fringe entertainment for years.
		Bowfinger was great for some serious laughs, but 3 days later, it's already faded from my memory.
	www.leisuresuit.net /Webzine/articles/bowfinger_rev.shtml (938 words)

	MMI Movie Review: Bowfinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"Bowfinger" re-teams Steve and director Frank Oz who worked together on the hysterical "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels." In the past few years while most of Steve's choices as an actor have been questionable he has blossomed as a comedy writer.
		Christine Baranski's aging drama queen is also hilarious as she shares insights on their work together with the bewildered Kit Ramsey.
		Sure I miss Steve's stream of consciousness ramblings that Cym and I loved on that landmark record album but "Bowfinger" is funny as hell and in testament to Steve's comedic prowess it never once reaches for the raunch to raise a laugh.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/bowfinger.html (449 words)

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