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Mood:
- HumorousFeel GoodExciting
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Plot:
- Goofy HeroMad ScientistSplit PersonalityNothing Goes RightFall in LoveWooingExperiment Gone AwryOutward Appearance more...
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Genres:
- Comedy
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century90s
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Place:
- USA
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Audience:
- Date NightFamily OutingTeens
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- Award WinnerBlockbusterOscar WinnerPrestigious Awards
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Humor:
- Grossout HumorSilly Humor
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Based on:
- Remake
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Attitudes:
- Not SeriousFantastic
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The Nutty Professor, 1996
English
USA
Profile of The Nutty Professor
The Nutty Professor can be described as humorous, feel good, and exciting. The plot revolves around a character with a split personality, outward appearances, and wooing. Its comic aspect comes from grossout humor and silly humor. The Nutty Professor's main genre is comedy. In approach, it is not serious and fantastical. It is located in the USA. The Nutty Professor takes place in the 1990s. It is a remake. The movie has received attention for being an Oscar winner and a blockbuster. The Nutty Professor is well suited for a date night, a family outing, and teens.
Summary of The Nutty Professor
Eddie Murphy stars as a grossly overweight chemistry professor in this update of the classic 1963 Jerry Lewis comedy. Eager to reinvent himself and to ease his loneliness, the professor develops a potion that magically transforms him into a lean, mean, sex machine, capable of seducing any woman in sight, but he loses his niceness along the way. Academy Award Nominations: Best Makeup.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 27 June 1996 |
| Runtime: | 95 min |
Cast and Crew
as Sherman Klump / Buddy Love / Lance Perkins / Papa Klump / Mama Klump / Grandma Klump / Ernie Klump
as Carla Purty
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- by: Richard Schickel
Los Angeles Times
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- by: Kenneth Turan
