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It’s a sendup of the film industry but Steve Martin (the writer of the sp) starts with the clever premise that is kind of a reverse 3 Amigos where the big name star of the film doesn’t know he’s part of the movie b/c the crew is guerilla filming him. That could lead to some Candid Camera-style escapades in lesser hands, but with Christine Baranski and Eddie Murphy involved, these scenes become brilliant. One of my favorite non-sequitur quotable lines comes from these interactions : “I must get my UMMMMMMMMM-brella.”

It’s a pretty broad comedy, but it’s also very insightful and clever with some of its elements. The Scientology bits are really fun as are the Anne Heche bits (Steve Martin reportedly wrote the Heather Graham role from his experience dating Anne Heche). And there are bits for film lovers strewn about like how film executive Robert Downey jr takes a screenplay, reads the first page and last page, and then says “if you can get a top action star, it’s a go-movie”, or about paying to audition, about nudity in film, about the role of a writer, …

In short, it’s a fun breezy film with really likable stars all over and it’s also just 97 minutes.

Definitely check it out if you haven’t.