April 17, 2014I think Bowfinger marked the end of Steve Martin making funny movies. You could argue Novocaine was the end of that era, but I'd say Bowfinger was the real deal. After that he just made depressingly family friendly movies and depressingly depressing movies. There are plenty of people who like that stuff, so I say, "good for them," and sadly mourn the loss of one of the funniest comedians the world has ever known (even though he is still very much alive and well). Martin plays Bowfinger, a film director that desperately wants to make a good movie but has absolutely no money to do it. He gets a fantastic script about aliens coming to Earth in raindrops and decides to make the movie starring Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy - also in one of his final funny movies), even though Kit Ramsey was the biggest Hollywood star and there was no way they could afford him. So they filmed a bunch of scenes around Kit, making him think he was going crazy, and they eventually found his twin brother Jeff and hired him. Bowfinger is hilarious, so if you haven't seen it check it out.
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