Bowfinger

This bang-on-target satire of low-budget Hollywood film-making contains Steve Martin's best comic performance since Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Martin plays an ambitious but financially challenged director who's unable to sign up A-list action star Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy) for his new sci-fi project. So he follows the actor around, setting up various silly scenarios and filming Kit's shocked reactions to insert into his movie that features a lookalike (also played by Murphy). Martin - who also wrote the hilarious screenplay - and Murphy are immensely engaging, and there's sparkling support from Heather Graham as a talentless actress who's quite prepared to sleep her way to the top. While The Player was a snarling, sharp-toothed beast, director Frank Oz's fun send-up of Tinseltown is a cute and cuddly companion piece.