Best year ever: Bowfinger

Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy and Frank Oz create a classic farce.

Bowfinger is popcorn topped with cyanide. An ode to the dreamers on the fringe of the movie industry, it’s also canny enough to know every one of those dreamers would push their mother into oncoming traffic to show up on the big screen.

Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) is a director who, as far as we can tell, has never helmed anything but local theater. H…