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- Grossly overweight yet good-hearted professor Sherman Klump takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love. Brilliant and obese scientist Sherman Klump invents a miraculous weight-loss solution.
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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.
Sherman Klump is an incredibly fat and good-hearted man. He is a college professor on the verge of a breakthrough in DNA restructuring when he meets an admirer of his, named Carla, who is a teacher new to Klump's college. He is enamored of her, but is frustrated by his tremendous bulk.
- The film is based on the 1963 Jerry Lewis comedy of the same name. The Jekyll and Hyde-like storylines are mostly the same in both films, as is the name of the protagonist’s alter ego (Buddy Love).
- The weight loss storyline was inspired by daytime television. Murphy allegedly came up with the weight loss theme of the movie while watching a daytime chat show’s segment on the topic.
- Lewis served as executive producer on the 1996 version of The Nutty Professor. He also executive produced its sequel, 2000’s The Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps, and would go on to produce and star in a computer-animated sequel to his original film—also called The Nutty Professor—in 2008.
- But it turns out Lewis isn’t really a fan of Murphy’s version. He’s quoted as saying, “I have such respect for Eddie, but I should not have done it. What I did was perfect the first time around, and all you’re going to do is diminish that perfection by letting someone else do it.”
The Nutty Professor is a 1996 film and the first in the Nutty Professor series. It is a remake of the 1963 film starring Jerry Lewis. The film follows Sherman Klump, a kind-hearted but overweight scientist who invents a weight-loss formula in order to win over Carla Purty after he is heckled mercilessly by a comedian at a nightclub.
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
Jan 25, 2023 · In 1963, legendary comedian Jerry Lewis wrote and directed what many consider to be his masterpiece, "The Nutty Professor," a spin on the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In the film, Lewis plays...
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...
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- Comedy
- PG-13
