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Independent film <s>production company</s> director Bobby Bowfinger is desperate to make a feature film. With a script penned by Bowfinger's accountant, titled "Chubby Rain", they're all set. However, having a budget of only $2184, Bowfinger and his crew of one cameraman, two actors and one accountant-slash-screenwriter have to make do by sneaking equipment off studio lots, "borrowing" vintage cars from other film producers and filming in public places without a permit. Of course, the one thing that could make or break the film is the pull of a big star in the lead role, and they've found just the actor: Kit Ramsey. The only problem is that they kinda "forgot" to tell him about it first. Not really a problem: they just need to [[Enforced Method Acting|film him without him finding out, that's all.]]

 

 

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* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]]: "I know you want to show it to the Laker Girls, but you can never show it to the Laker Girls."

* [[All Part of the Show]]: Inverted: Kit Ramsey doesn't know that it's all a show. Thankfully, due to his weak grasp on reality, he somewhat accepts what's going on, even if he's freaked out all of the time.

* [[The Cameo]]: Yup, that's Robert Downey Jr in the restaurant.

* [[Casting Couch]]: [[Heather Graham]]'s character Daisy ends up sleeping with everyone involved with the film.

* [[Church of Happyology]]: "Welcome to MindHead! Welcome to MindHead! Welcome to MindHead!"

* [[Dueling Stars Movie]]: Let's face it, it's got both [[Steve Martin]] and [[Eddie Murphy]].

* [[Everything Is Racist]]: 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).

* [[The Illegal]]: The crew besides the people mentioned in the lead.

* [[Just Keep Driving]]: Eddie Murphy runs across a highway and ''none'' of the drivers react. [[Take That|Well, this is Los Angeles.]]

* [[Oscar Bait]]: Kit Ramsey remarks that when white actors play [[Inspirationally Disadvantaged|"retards"]], they get the Oscars, and when black actors play slaves, they get the nominations. So his agent needs to find him a role as a retarded slave so his winning an Oscar can be a sure thing.

* [[Pop Cultural Osmosis Failure]]:

** In reverse, too:

* [[Production Posse]]: Bowfinger and the regular cast of his films.

* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Kit Ramsey starts off paranoid, and then it turns out that people ''are'' following him with cameras.

=== ''Chubby Rain'', the [[Show Within a Show|film within the film]], contains the following tropes: ===

* [[Easily-Thwarted Alien Invasion]]: As far as we can tell, Kit's character is able to defeat the aliens without actually doing anything. Except maybe playing tennis. And saying "GOTCHA SUCKERS!"

* [[Just a Stupid Accent]]: Daisy's character has a bizarre pseudo-European accent for no apparent reason. Unfortunately, it makes it very hard to understand one of her funniest [[Narm|Narmy]] lines: "One slip-up in your tough, crime-filled world and you could die!"

* [[Special Effects Failure]]: The big explosion that destroys the aliens is essential a firework going off.

* [[Stylistic Suck]]: [[Word of God]], this is why ''Chubby Rain'' was a hit.

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