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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
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...
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The Nutty Professor
1We first see Sherman preparing to go to work at Wellman college where he is an professor teaching chemistry to college students but once he arrives there? he discovers that most of his hamsters because his stomach raised the switch before he left it the night before? had escape and is all over the campus. It angers his boss Dean Richmond and he confronts Sherman about the incident but he sees an hamster on the ceiling about to fall in his coffee and tries to tell him about it but he tells Sh...
Sherman is a kindhearted, loving man, but often has severe confidence issues that often get the better of him under stress or nervousness. Whenever these insecurities reach their peak, it makes him more vulnerable to commit stupid acts, that his common sense wouldn't normally allow. Case in point, being heckled by Reggie Warrington, drove him to te...
The lead role of Sherman Klump was originally written for The Flinstones' co-star Rick Moranis, but he turned it down to end his mainstream acting career on the film Big Bully (1996), just to spend...Other casting considerations such as Tim Allen, Ernie Sabella, Dave Foley, John Heard, and Andrew Dice Clay (whom at one point was set to star) were also written on the audition list to play Sherma...It took approximately three hours each day to apply Eddie Murphy's makeup.When Eddie Murphy was interviewed by Jay Leno on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) in 1996, Jay asked if he would appear in public as one of these characters. He said he went outside walking do...Sherman also the only Klump who never swears due to being a polite gentleman, the only times he actually swore was in the sequel where he says "Oh shit." and "Big ass problem." during his third nig...Sherman story in the film is a parody of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as both Dr Jekyll are brilliant scientists who transform themselves into obnoxious alter egos of themselves. Mr Hyde and Buddy Love.Teddy Pendergrass is played at Sherman Klump's house. Teddy Pendergrass was also mentioned by Eddie Murphy for having such a great voice in his first stand-up concert film Eddie Murphy: Delirious (...Eddie Murphy plays seven characters in total in this film: Sherman Klump, Mama Klump, Papa Klump, Grandma Klump, Ernie Klump, Buddy Love and Lance Perkins the TV fitness coach.Tom Shadyac. Screenplay. When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, genetic professor Dr. Sherman Klump grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and win her heart.
Murphy plays a total of seven characters in the film, including Sherman and most of Sherman's family. Sherman's nephew is the only member of the family not to be portrayed by Eddie Murphy. The film received positive reviews, with critics particularly praising the makeup and Murphy's performance.
The Nutty Professor (known as Julius F. Kelp in the original film (1963) and as Prof. Sherman Klump in the 1996 remake, and by his alter ego Buddy Love in both films) is a fictional character portrayed by Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor and its respective sequel, and by Eddie Murphy in the 1996 version and its 2000 sequel Nutty Professor II: The Klumps.
