History Film / Bowfinger

* WritersCannotDoMath: Kit Ramsey goes through a script and found the letter K appearing 1456 times, which he says is perfectly divisible by 3. 1456 isn't perfectly divisible by 3. [[FridgeBrilliance Perhaps it's Kit who sucks at math.]] [[BlatantLies Or he just made it up.]]

* StylisticSuck: WordOfGod, this is why ''Chubby Rain'' was a hit. Judging from the footage we see, it's believable.
* ThereIsNoBInMovie: Dear God. Not only the plot is schlocky sci-fi, the dialogue is clunky, often full of bizarre exposition.

* ChurchOfHappyology: "Welcome to [=MindHead=]! Welcome to [=MindHead=]! Welcome to [=MindHead=]!" Played with, as whatever their methods, [=MindHead's=] agents do seem genuinely concerned about Kit, and they're the only ones able to rein in Kit's raving eccentricities. If not for them, he'd likely be in a mental institution with all the paranoia he's coping with. [[spoiler: In the finale they put the pieces together and stage a rescue from the film crew GasLighting him.]] [=MindHead=] also appears to incorporate elements from several other New-Age self-help fads which have been popular in California over the decades, such as PyramidPower and Erhard Seminars Training.

Directed by Frank Oz (''Film/DirtyRottenScoundrels''), ''Bowfinger'' (1999) stars Creator/SteveMartin as Bobby Bowfinger, Creator/EddieMurphy as Kit Ramsey and Kit's "stunt double" Jiff, and a handful of other stars.

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: The song playing when Daisy first gets off the bus? "Legend of a Cowgirl", about a woman who loves 'em and leaves 'em.

* ActionGirl: Daisy's character does most of the fighting in the movie while Kit's character just looks scared and confused. And as far as we can tell, [[HypercompetentSidekick she's the one doing all the real work in staving off the alien invasion]].

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: Every member of Bowfinger's ensemble appears in the final scene except for Slater who is noticeably absent.

* EverythingIsRacist: Kit Ramsey lives on this. He considers his lack of a bankable catchphrase to be racism, he counts the number of times the letter "K" shows up in a script and if it's divisible by 3, it's a blatant reference to the Ku Klux Klan, and he considers the uttering of Shakespeare's name as being a sly way of calling him a "spear-chucker" (Shakespeare = Shake a spear).

* NoBudget: Also in-universe. "Movies cost millions of dollars you say? That's after [[UsefulNotes/HollywoodAccounting gross net deduction profit percentage deferment ten percent of the nut]]. Cash, every movie costs $2,184". [[spoiler:Turns out no it doesn't, Bowfinger goes broke during production, so he has to steal Daisy's credit card to finance the rest of the film.]]

* StylisticSuck: WordOfGod, this is why ''Chubby Rain'' was a hit. Judging from the footage we seen, it's believable.

Directed by Frank Oz (''Film/DirtyRottenScoundrels''), ''Bowfinger'' (2000) stars Creator/SteveMartin as Bobby Bowfinger, Creator/EddieMurphy as Kit Ramsey and Kit's "stunt double" Jiff, and a handful of other stars.

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Directed by Frank Oz (''Film/DirtyRottenScoundrels''), ''Bowfinger'' stars Creator/SteveMartin as Bobby Bowfinger, Creator/EddieMurphy as Kit Ramsey and Kit's "stunt double" Jiff, and a handful of other stars.

* ChurchOfHappyology: "Welcome to [=MindHead=]! Welcome to [=MindHead=]! Welcome to [=MindHead=]!" Played with, as whatever their methods, [=MindHead's=] agents do seem genuinely concerned about Kit, and they're the only ones able to rein in Kit's raving eccentricities. If not for them, he'd likely be in a mental institution with all the paranoia he's coping with. [[spoiler: In the finale they put the pieces together and stage a rescue from the film crew GasLighting him.]]

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse?: Every member of Bowfinger's ensemble appears in the final scene except for Slater who is noticeably absent.

* BlackAndNerdy: Jiff.

* BadBadActing: Daisy's spastic, over-the-top performance, the bribed cop nearly forgetting his lines mid-take, Carol constantly ChewingTheScenery and pretty much everyone on camera save for maybe Kit Ramsey.

* WimpFight / FightSceneFailure: A spectacular, [[StylisticSuck intentional]] [[InUniverse case]] in the end's [[ShowWithinAShow movie-within-a-movie]] ''Fake Purse Ninjas''.

* DuelingStarsMovie: Let's face it, it's got both SteveMartin and EddieMurphy.

** 1458 is divisible by 3, and the result is 486, which is what Kit says. Eddie Murphy might have swapped in the 6.

* CastingCouch: HeatherGraham's character Daisy ends up sleeping with everyone involved with the film.

* ZeroChops / FightSceneFailure: A spectacular, [[StylisticSuck intentional]] [[InUniverse case]] in the end's [[ShowWithinAShow movie-within-a-movie]] ''Fake Purse Ninjas''.

* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:When Bowfinger's con is finally discovered, he still gets permission to use Kit's footage by blackmaining [=MindHead=] with footage of Kit flashing the Laker Girls.]]