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The Nutty Professor

The Nutty Professor

★ 5,7 /10 (3,227 Votes)
1996 EN 95 min

Overview

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. So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum, Sherman becomes 'Buddy Love', a fast-talking, pumped-up, plumped down Don Juan.

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Release date

28/06/1996

Votes

3,227

Popularity

8.5

Inside Sherman Klump, a party animal is about to break out.

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

95 min

Budget

$54,000,000

Revenue

$128,769,345

Website

www.uphe.com

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Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

2024-05-18

⭐ 5

**A comedic film that was successful, and which is based on the talented efforts of Eddie Murphy.** This is one of the comedies that helped establish Eddie Murphy's name as a comic actor, and I wouldn't be exaggerating if I said that it was one of the most memorable comedies that came out in the 90s: almost everyone has seen this film, regardless of whether or not they liked him. The story is quite simple and follows the journey of a clumsy university chemistry professor who, suffering from morbid obesity, decides to invent a serum that allows him, instantly, to assume the physical elegance…

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2026-09-03

⭐ 6

I reckon your enjoyment (or not) of this will depend on whether or not you like Eddie Murphy and his style of puerile comedy. As you might have guessed by now, I don't and so I found myself wondering why a now seventy-year-old Jerry Lewis - purveyor of the original outing for this troubled academic in 1963 - would have got himself involved in this at all. "Klump" is an obese scientist who discovers a solution for his portliness in the form of a serum. Snag? Well it does give him more of a sylph-like figure, but only for a finite period of time before he does his own version of the "Incredible …

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