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Jun 28, 1996 · As the movie opens, Murphy is Professor Sherman Klump, brilliant chemist and geneticist, and fat slob. He falls instantly in love with a new graduate student named Carla Purty ( Jada Pinkett) and bashfully bumbles his way into asking her out on a date.
Brilliant and obese scientist Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy) invents a miraculous weight-loss solution. After a date with chemistry student Carla Purty (Jada Pinkett) goes badly, a depressed...
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The Nutty Professor has received generally positive reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 64% based on reviews from 55 critics, with an average rating of 5.90/10. The site's consensus states: " The Nutty Professor falls back on juvenile humor eagerly and often, but Eddie Murphy's consistently funny work in dual roles ...
Oct 14, 2004 · October 14, 2004. When Eddie Murphy reimagined what was easily Jerry Lewis’s most critically accepted directorial effort, 1963’s The Nutty Professor, he also indulged in the Lewis-like gag of casting himself in multiple roles.
An unattractive but intelligent professor wants to be handsome and be able to woo the ladies. In this version, Eddie Murphy is an obese professor named Sherman Klump. He is immediately likable the first moment you see him.
Oct 3, 1996 · In this wacky variant of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, Murphy is the obese college professor and biochemist Sherman Klump, whose experiments enable him to shed 300 pounds and his inhibitions in 30...
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Oct 12, 2015 · Based on the 1963 Jerry Lewis film, The Nutty Professor changes many of the details, turning this from a story about a nerdy scientist wanting to become more socially viable into a film about an overweight professor trying to lose some weight. The ideas aren’t completely dissimilar, so the update doesn’t fail on those merits alone.
