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The Nutty Professor is a 1996 American science fiction film directed by Tom Shadyac. The screenplay was written by Steve Oedekerk, Tom Shadyac, and Jerry Lewis. The cast includes Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn, and Dave Chappelle. Brian Grazer and Russell Simmons produced the movie, which was created by Imagine Entertainment. It is based on the work The Nutty Professor.
The film has a runtime of 91 or 95 minutes. It was released on June 28, 1996, and October 17, 1996. The budget was 54,000,000. Box office figures vary, with one source listing 273,961,019 and another listing 128,769,345 in revenue. It received an Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling and was nominated for the same award. The film is distributed by Netflix and Universal Pictures.
Audience ratings include a 5.643 average from 3,116 votes on TMDb and a 5.7 rating from 131,159 votes on IMDb. The genres are listed as comedy, romance, and sci-fi. The original language is English. The film is followed by Nutty Professor II: The Klumps.
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5.6When 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. So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum, Sherman becomes 'Buddy Love', a fast-talking, pumped-up, plumped down Don Juan.
Cast
- Eddie Murphy as Sherman Klump / Buddy Love / Lance Perkins / Papa Klump / Mama Klump / Grandma Klump / Ernie Klump
- Jada Pinkett Smith as Carla Purty
- James Coburn as Harlan Hartley
- Larry Miller as Dean Richmond
- Dave Chappelle as Reggie Warrington
- John Ales as Jason
Themes
- overweight
- overweight man
- campus
- family dinner
- jekyll and hyde
- duringcreditsstinger
- chemistry professor
- 1990s
- hilarious
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Tom Shadyac
- Screenplay by
- David Sheffield Barry W. Blaustein Tom Shadyac Steve Oedekerk
- Based on
- The Nutty Professor , 1963 film, by Jerry Lewis , Bill Richmond
- Produced by
- Brian Grazer Russell Simmons
- Starring
- Eddie Murphy Jada Pinkett James Coburn Dave Chappelle
- Cinematography
- Julio Macat
- Edited by
- Don Zimmerman
- Music by
- David Newman
- Production companies
- Imagine Entertainment , Eddie Murphy Productions
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release date
- June 28, 1996 ( 1996-06-28 )
- Running time
- 96 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $54 million
- Box office
- $274 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- science fiction film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Followed by
- Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
- Based on
- The Nutty Professor
- Director
- Tom Shadyac
- Cast member
- Jamal Mixon
- Composer
- David Newman
- Producer
- Russell Simmons
- Production company
- Imagine Entertainment
- Cinematographer
- Don Zimmerman
- Narrative location
- California
- Duration
- 91
- FilmAffinity ID
- 890641
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1996-10-17
- film editor
- Don Zimmerman
- title
- The Nutty Professor
- distributed by
- Netflix
- capital cost
- 54000000
- box office
- 273961019
- after a work by
- Bill Richmond
- different from
- The Absent-Minded Professor
- review score
- 63%
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Encyclopedic overview
The Nutty Professor is a 1996 American comedy film starring Eddie Murphy as the titular character. It is a remake of the 1963 film of the same name, which starred Jerry Lewis. The remake, directed by Tom Shadyac, co-stars Jada Pinkett, James Coburn, Larry Miller, Dave Chappelle, and John Ales. Filming began on May 8, 1995 and wrapped on September 8, 1995. The original music score was composed by David Newman.
Murphy portrays a university professor, Sherman Klump, a brainy and kind-hearted obese man who weighs 400 pounds. A research scientist, academic, and lecturer, Klump develops a miraculous, but experimental, weight-loss pharmaceutical, and hoping to win the affection of the girl of his dreams, tests it upon himself. Just like Julius Kelp from the original film, Klump's vigorous, charismatic, but evil alter ego takes the name "Buddy Love". 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.
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