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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.

Plot

Film producer Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) is extremely eager to make a film, he's saved up for it his entire life. Now with a script penned by an accountant (Adam Alexi-Malle), a camera operator (Jamie Kennedy) with access to studio-owned equipment, and several actors who are hungry for work (Christine Baranski, Heather Graham, Kohl Sudduth) he needs access to a studio in order to get his movie made.

He manages to extract a promise from a film studio executive (Robert Downey Jr.) that the executive will distribute the film if it includes action star Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy). Ramsey refuses, so Bowfinger resorts to hiring Ramsey's twin brother (also played by Murphy) and begins covertly filming Ramsey in public in scenes with Ramsey's character. 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 (who is a member of a Scientology-spoof organization called MindHead) misinterprets the movie's sci-fi dialogue and believes he's being stalked by aliens, damaging his already-precarious mental state.

The plan goes without a hitch. Ramsey ends up starring (unknowingly) in the movie. All Bowfinger needs to shoot is the final scene, with Ramsey shouting the final line "Gotcha suckers!" But at this point, Ramsey has told his psychiatrist at MindHead about the 'aliens'. MindHead officials track Bowfinger to the observatory, and production is shut down. It seems Bowfinger will never get his movie. That is until their camera crew reveals that they were filming Ramsey off-set, just in case they saw anything they could use in the movie.

What they did film was a short scene of Ramsey donning a paper bag over his head and flashing the Laker Girl Cheerleading Squad. Bowfinger shows the footage to MindHead, and implies that unless they tell Ramsey to finish shooting, he'll take the footage public. Knowing that such a film could ruin Ramsey's career, MindHead tells Ramsey to finish the movie. Bowfinger finally gets to sit at the premere of a movie he himself directed, and is awed.

Trivia

The film was censored in Taiwan due to a pejorative description of the country in the plot (at the end of the movie). The reference to the country was edited out.

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