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* MagnificentBastard: Bobby Bowfinger is an aging Hollywood director who decides to shoot an AlienInvasion movie starring an action star without him knowing he's in it. Gathering together a group of wanna-bes for his actors and illegal Mexican immigrants for his crew, he follows A-list actor Kit Ramsay around filming him in secret and editing the film around his footage. Unaware that his actions are triggering Kit's ParanoiaFuel about aliens being real, Kit's mentors at [[ChurchOfHappyology Mindhead]] realize what's happening and bust Bowfinger as he films the final scenes. Bowfinger bounces back with secret footage of Kit flashing himself to the Laker Girls, blackmailing Mindhead and Kit into cooperating. Fast-talking, quick-thinking, and never letting any opportunity go to waste, Bowfinger manages to pull off his scheme and finally make a movie like he's dreamed of.
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** Toyed with but ultimately subverted with Mexicans. Bowfinger gets his film crew by hustling illegal Mexican immigrants into the back of his van and they have no idea what's going on. By the end of the movie, their experience on ''Chubby Rain'' has made them into competent professionals who know all about camera gear and proper shooting techniques.
** Toyed with for [=MindHead=], the ChurchOfHappyology. While their inspiration is unquestionable and they're implied to be gouging Kit, they're shown to be competent, professional men who do their best to help him get over his paranoid delusions, and they definitely do ''not'' encourage a belief in aliens. [[spoiler:And at the end of the film, they come to Kit's rescue when they bust up Bowfinger's shoot and unmask his scheme.]]
** Toyed with but ultimately subverted with Mexicans. Bowfinger gets his film crew by hustling illegal Mexican immigrants into the back of his van and they have no idea what's going on. By the end of the movie, their experience on ''Chubby Rain'' has made them into competent professionals who know all about camera gear and proper shooting techniques.
** Toyed with for [=MindHead=], the ChurchOfHappyology. While their inspiration is unquestionable and they're implied to be gouging Kit, they're shown to be competent, professional men who do their best to help him get over his paranoid delusions, and they definitely do ''not'' encourage a belief in aliens. [[spoiler:And at the end of the film, they come to Kit's rescue when they bust up Bowfinger's shoot and unmask his scheme.]]
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* HarsherInHindsight: Daisy spends the majority of ''Chubby Rain'' [[DrivesLikeCrazy driving like crazy]] around Los Angeles. In August 2022, Creator/AnneHeche, who was the inspiration for Daisy, died from injuries sustained in an automotive accident.
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** Kit mentions wanting to do an OscarBait movie with him playing a mentally handicapped person since he comments on white actors constantly winning Oscars for that. Nine years later, Creator/RobertDowneyJr, who plays Renfro in this, would star in [[Film/TropicThunder another film]] that featured a white action star doing a blatant OscarBait film where he played a mentally handicapped person, which ended up back-firing horribly and being an in-universe StarDerailingRole for him.
*** Compounding it further, Downey then immediately followed up with ''TheSoloist'', a painfully straight example of such a film (where he played not the mentally handicapped person but their patron).
*** Compounding it further, Downey then immediately followed up with ''TheSoloist'', a painfully straight example of such a film (where he played not the mentally handicapped person but their patron).
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** Kit mentions wanting to do an OscarBait movie with him playing a mentally handicapped person since he comments on white actors constantly winning Oscars for that. Nine years later, Creator/RobertDowneyJr, who plays Renfro in this, would star in [[Film/TropicThunder another film]] that featured a white action star doing a blatant OscarBait film where he played a mentally handicapped person, which ended up back-firing horribly and being an in-universe StarDerailingRole for him.
***him. Compounding it further, Downey then immediately followed up with ''TheSoloist'', ''Film/TheSoloist'', a painfully straight example of such a film (where he played not the mentally handicapped person but their patron).
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*** Compounding it further, Downey then immediately followed up with ''TheSoloist'', a painfully straight example of such a film (where he played not the mentally handicapped person but their patron).
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* AcceptableEthnicTargets: Toyed with but ultimately subverted. Bowfinger gets his film crew by hustling illegal Mexican immigrants into the back of his van. By the end of the movie, the men have learned all about film-making and are now respected and highly successful professionals.
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** Toyed with but ultimatelysubverted. subverted with Mexicans. Bowfinger gets his film crew by hustling illegal Mexican immigrants into the back of his van. van and they have no idea what's going on. By the end of the movie, the men have learned their experience on ''Chubby Rain'' has made them into competent professionals who know all about film-making camera gear and are now respected proper shooting techniques.
** Toyed with for [=MindHead=], the ChurchOfHappyology. While their inspiration is unquestionable andhighly successful professionals.they're implied to be gouging Kit, they're shown to be competent, professional men who do their best to help him get over his paranoid delusions, and they definitely do ''not'' encourage a belief in aliens. [[spoiler:And at the end of the film, they come to Kit's rescue when they bust up Bowfinger's shoot and unmask his scheme.]]
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** Toyed with for [=MindHead=], the ChurchOfHappyology. While their inspiration is unquestionable and
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** Kit mentions wanting to do an OscarBait movie with him playing a mentally handicapped person since he comments on white actors constantly winning Oscars for that. Nine years later, Creator/RobertDowneyJr, who plays Renfro in this, would star in [[Film/TropicThunder another film]] that featured a white action star doing a blatant OscarBait film where he played a mentally handicapped person, which ended up back-firing horribly and being an in-universe StarDerailingRole for him.him.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/JohnCho as the nightclub cleaner who works with Bowfinger.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/JohnCho as the nightclub cleaner who works with Bowfinger.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The film was actually made ''before'' Creator/TomCruise got a reputation as a CloudCuckoolander who you could believe would have no idea he was making ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire''.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The film was actually made ''before'' Tom Cruise Creator/TomCruise got a reputation as a CloudCuckoolander who you could believe would have no idea he was making ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire''.
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* DudeNotFunny: Even if Bowfinger isn't doing it knowingly, in the end this is a film about a wanna-be director making a film by stalking a paranoid-delusional and having a script and actors that play to his mental illnesses to provoke the react they need from his character. Kit spends most of the film on the verge of a total nervous breakdown and is reduced to a sobbing wreck at one point.
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* AcceptableEthnicTargets: Toyed with but ultimately subverted. Bowfinger gets his film crew by hustling illegal Mexican immigrants into the back of his van. By the end of the movie, the men have learned all about film-making and are now respected and highly successful professionals.professionals.
* DudeNotFunny: Even if Bowfinger isn't doing it knowingly, in the end this is a film about a wanna-be director making a film by stalking a paranoid-delusional and having a script and actors that play to his mental illnesses to provoke the react they need from his character. Kit spends most of the film on the verge of a total nervous breakdown and is reduced to a sobbing wreck at one point.
* DudeNotFunny: Even if Bowfinger isn't doing it knowingly, in the end this is a film about a wanna-be director making a film by stalking a paranoid-delusional and having a script and actors that play to his mental illnesses to provoke the react they need from his character. Kit spends most of the film on the verge of a total nervous breakdown and is reduced to a sobbing wreck at one point.
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* AcceptableEthnicTargets: Toyed with but ultimately subverted. Bowfinger gets his film crew by hustling illegal Mexican immigrants into the back of his van. By the end of the movie, the men have learned all about film-making and are now respected and highly successful professionals.
* FightSceneFailure: A spectacular, [[StylisticSuck intentional]] [[InUniverse case]] in the end's [[ShowWithinAShow movie-within-a-movie]] ''Fake Purse Ninjas''.
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