"Bowfinger" (1999) is such a genius parody of the move business. It's impossible not to laugh at the hijinks and the shade directed at the industry

It's unfortunate it didn't do as well as some of the more popular Eddir Murphy movies because Bowfinger is probably among his top 5 movies ever. Then again, thank god it didn't do a lot or else we would have had a couple of mediocre sequels.

There isn't a single flaw in this movie. Even the set-up of the unknown dorky twin works because the writing is so good and Murphy plays it up so well, either as the narcissistic egomaniacal asshole Kit Ramsey with his endless rants about not being appreciated or racist paranoia (he mistakes Shakespeare for Shake a Spear), or the geeky Jiff who's used by the untalented director, Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin), as a occasional body double for Kit Ramsey, in his movie "Chubby Rain". Bowfinger decides to direct a movie by filming Ramsey without him knowing about it.

He also has aging actress Carol (Christine Baranski), who doesn't know when to overact and wants to have sex with Kit Ramsey, Daisy (Heather Grahame), an aspiring and ambitious actress who can't act but will do anything to go up in her career (said to be a diss directed at Anne Heche whom Steve Martin used to date), Afrim (Adam Alexi Malle), a Videostore owner who helps fund Bowfinger's ambitions among others.

The film also features strong supporting turns from Robert Downey Jr (during his "I'm cancelled Junkie" phase) and Terence Stamp.

A highlarious movie. The highway scene is a classic. It always gives its audience an uproarious laughter.