The Nutty Professor (1996 film)
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The Nutty Professor is a 1996 film starring Eddie Murphy. It is a remake of the 1963 film The Nutty Professor starring Jerry Lewis.
Murphy plays nice university professor Sherman Klump who suffers from severe obesity. He invents a miracle weight loss potion so that he can seduce the girl of his dreams. He eventually discovers that an unfortunate side effect of his invention is disassociative identity disorder. Like the original film's Julius Kelp, Klump's trim and stylish, but arrogant, alter ego is also named Buddy Love. Murphy plays a total of seven characters in the film.
The film also features a series of scenes with Murphy and comedian Dave Chappelle (who plays insult comic Reggie Warrington). Murphy is often considered the greatest black stand-up comedian of the 1980s and Chappelle is considered by many to deserve the same title during the 2000s.
The film co-stars Jada Pinkett, John Ales, and Larry Miller. Jamal Mixon, James Coburn, and Montell Jordan have cameo roles.
A sequel to the remake, called , was released in 2000.
This film is number 70 on Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies.
External links
- [The Nutty Professor] at the Internet Movie Database.
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