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The Nutty Professor is a 1996 American science fiction comedy film starring Eddie Murphy. It is a remake of the 1963 film of the same name, which starred Jerry Lewis, which itself was a parody of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Jun 28, 1996 · The Nutty Professor: Directed by Tom Shadyac. With Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn, Larry Miller. Grossly overweight yet good-hearted professor Sherman Klump takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love.
The Nutty Professor franchise consists of American science fiction-slapstick comedies, including three theatrical films, one straight-to-home video release, a musical stage play, and a theatrical reboot in development.
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 Klump ...
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The Nutty Professor (1996) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
After being made fun of for his weight, a kind and brainy professor takes a dose of a revolutionary formula that changes more than just his appearance. Watch trailers & learn more.
Lance Perkins (Eddie Murphy) is hosting an exercise program on TV for overweight people. Professor Sherman Klump (also Eddie Murphy), a kindly, well-liked, brilliant professor of genetics, gets ready for work. Meanwhile, 5,000 hamsters are overrunning Wellman College and causing general chaos.
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.
Jan 9, 2012 · Eddie Murphy stars as shy Dr. Sherman Klump, a kind, brilliant, 'calorifically challenged' genetic professor. When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, Sherman grows desperate to...
Eddie Murphy gives "the performances" of his career - playing seven roles! - in this hilarious comedy about a genetics professor who experiments with his own fat-reducing serum.