DOLEMITE IS MY NAME + BOWFINGER

Showings

Castro Theatre Fri, Mar 6, 2020 7:00 PM

Description

DOLEMITE IS MY NAME 7:00 In a sensational return to the spotlight, Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, the comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a '70s Blaxploitation phenomenon. In dramatizing Moore's stranger-than-fiction story, director Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow) makes the film just as bold, brash, and ultimately hard to resist as its subject. (2019, 118 min, 35mm ‘Scope) + BOWFINGER 9:10 Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy star in this smart and clever satire about Hollywood's least successful director Bobby Bowfinger (Martin) and his attempt to get Hollywood's biggest star Kit Ramsey (Murphy) in his ultra low-budget film. With an ingenious scheme and the help of Kit's nerdy brother Jiff (also Murphy), an ambitious wannabe (Heather Graham) and an over-the-hill diva (Christine Baranski), Bowfinger sets out to trick Kit into the performance of a lifetime. (1999, 97 min, 35mm)