Roxanne is a comedy film released in 1987, starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah. It is a modern retelling of the verse play Cyrano de Bergerac, written in 1897 by French author Edmond Rostand. The screenplay was written by Martin.

With L.A. Story and A Simple Twist of Fate, this forms the first installment of a loose trilogy of films written by Martin about love. It was also released on Blu-ray disc on May 5, 2009.

Plot summary

In the film, Martin plays C.D. Bales, the fire chief in a small American town in the Pacific Northwest. (Note that C.D. Bales' initials match those of Cyrano de Bergerac.) Bales is witty, acrobatic, and skilled at many things, but he has a very large nose about which he is violently sensitive. He loves the beautiful astronomer, Roxanne Kowalski (Hannah), but she is infatuated with Chris (Rick Rossovich), a handsome but dim fireman. As in the play, Bales is touchy about his perceived ugliness (which he cannot get surgically altered because of a dangerous allergy to anesthetics) and speaks to the object of adoration the only way he can: he writes expressions of love in letter form and allows Chris to present them to Roxanne as if they were his own.