The Nutty Professor (1996 film)

The Nutty Professor is a 1996 American comic science fiction film starring Eddie Murphy. It is a remake of the 1963 film of the same name, which starred Jerry Lewis, and was itself based on Robert Louis Stevensons Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The film costars Jada Pinkett, James Coburn, Larry Miller, Dave Chappelle and John Ales. Montell Jordan has a cameo role as himself. The original music score was composed by David Newman. The film won Best Makeup at the 69th Academy Awards.

At Wellman College, thousands of hamsters overrun the campus, due to the massively obese, yet loving and kindhearted, professor Sherman Klump Eddie Murphy, who accidentally releases them due to his wide belly always accidentally hitting the button when he turns around. Meanwhile, Sherman has constructed an experimental formula that reconstructs human DNA in a way that allows them to lose weight instantaneously.After class, Sherman meets and instantly falls in love with Carla Purty Jada PinkettSmith, a chemistry graduate student who is serving as a chemistry teacher and is a big fan of his work. After dinner with his obese, impolite family all played by Murphy, Sherman asks Carla out on a date, which she accepts, much to Shermans surprise. The date begins well with Carla showing admiration for Shermans work, but the clubs obnoxious comic Reggie Warrington Dave Chappelle publicly humiliates him about his weight. Sherman becomes depressed and has a nightmare in which he becomes a rampaging giant and wrecks the city with a single fart that is ignited to cause an explosion. He tests his serum on himself and loses 300 pounds in seconds. Overwhelmed by his thinness, he goes out and buys copious amounts of normalsized clothing to celebrate, and a 47,000 Viper sports car on his faculty expense account. ........

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