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A comedy remake of the 1963 film starring Jerry Lewis, with Eddie Murphy playing a professor who transforms into a slim and arrogant alter ego. The film won an Oscar for Best Makeup and spawned a sequel, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps.
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.
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- Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
- Tom Shadyac
- 1996-06-28
A comedy film starring Jerry Lewis as a nerdy professor who invents a serum that transforms him into a handsome womanizer. The film is a parody of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and features Lewis's signature slapstick humor and musical numbers.
The Nutty Professor is a series of American science fiction-slapstick comedies based on an original story by Jerry Lewis. The films explore the concept of self-worth and feature characters who transform into attractive and villainous alter egos with potions.
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- Tom Shadyac
- PG-13
- 32
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...
- (57)
- Comedy
- PG-13
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.
