L. A. Story And Roxanne: Two Screenplays »

While he rose to fame as one of America's foremost funnymen on the big and little screens, Steve Martin has taken to giving his unique, fantastical sense of humor literary life, from books like the bestselling novella Shopgirl to plays like Picasso at the Lapin Agile and The Underpants.

'Behind the clownish make-up, Steve Martin gives a sweet and serious performance as a latter-day Cyrano de Bergerac in Roxanne. It's easy to see why Mr. Martin, who wrote the film...was moved to reinvent this role...Mr. Martin's screenplay is bighearted and funny.' The New York Times

Los Angeles Times

"A warm, nible, utterly contemporary modern romance.. I can't think of a current movie in which every element is in such balance: Martin seems unfettered, expansive, utterly at ease...there's a tenderness to him that's magnetic."

"L.A. Story has a completely original spirit. It's wiggy yet deeply, helplessly romantic.... By placing LA. at the center of his new movie, Martin is saying that the city ecnourages people to act out their own most eccentric selves. He lays out all his own selves for us here, and, miraculously, they synthesize... A mystifyingly funny experience."