Bobby Bowfinger, a nearly bankrupt aspiring movie producer-director, is about to take one last shot at fame and fortune. Desperate to hit the big time, the hapless dreamer recruits a motley crew of aspiring misfits, including an eager nerd, an ambitious ingenue and an over-the-hill diva. With their help, Bowfinger embarks on a radical, ingenious scheme to trick the biggest name in movies into becoming the star of his ultra-low budget film.
The con is on, as Eddie Murphy and Steve Martin team up for the first time in Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment’s Bowfinger, a comedy directed by Frank Oz (In & Out) from an original screenplay by Steve Martin and produced by Brian Grazer (The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar). Martin and Murphy are joined by Heather Graham (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me), Christine Baranski (The Birdcage), Jamie Kennedy (Scream), Adam Alexi-Malle (The Peacemaker), Kohl Sudduth (Rounders), Robert Downey, Jr. (Chaplin) and Terence Stamp (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert).
Bernie Williams and Karen Kehela serve as the film’s executive producers, the director of photography is Ueli Steiger (Godzilla), with Jackson DeGovia (Speed) as production designer, Richard Pearson (From The Earth To The Moon) as editor and Joseph G. Aulisi (Stepmom) as costume designer.