Overlooked DVD of the Week: 'Bowfinger'

This week's Overlooked DVD is one of the great lost comedies from t1999: the Steve Martin/Eddie Murphy pairing Bowfinger.

Like Bill Murray's sole directorial effort, Quick Change, Bowfinger is one of the best undiscovered comedies of the 1990s. On one level, the movie is one of those inside-baseball movies about the movie business. But unlike most other films of that genre, Bowfinger is never too inside -- or even too clever -- for its own good.

Which isn't to say the movie isn't clever. The script, written by Martin, tells the story of Bobby Bowfinger, an extremely low-rent Hollywood producer (his cell phone still has a spiral cord attached) who has saved up $2,000 to make a feature. He even gets a promise from a studio head (Robert Downey Jr. in a funny cameo) that he'll get distribution for the movie if Bowfinger can get superstar Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy, in one of two very funny roles) Ramsey to star. (Read more...)

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