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Release Date:
28 June 1996 (USA)
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Tagline:
Inside Sherman Klump, a party animal is about to break out.
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Grossly overweight Prof. Sherman Klump, desperate to lose weight takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love. full summary | add synopsis
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Won Oscar.
Another 7 wins
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8 nominations
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(52 articles)
Eddie Murphy’s Return To R-Rated Comedy To Be ‘Fluffy?’
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Jerry Lewis Film Festival At Anthology Film Archives, New York
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Jerry Lewis Film Festival At Anthology Film Archives, New York
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Eddie Murphy | ... | Sherman Klump / Buddy Love / Lance Perkins / Papa Klump / Mama Klump / Grandma Klump / Ernie Klump |
 | Jada Pinkett Smith | ... | Carla Purty (as Jada Pinkett) |
 | James Coburn | ... | Harlan Hartley |
 | Larry Miller | ... | Dean Richmond |
 | Dave Chappelle | ... | Reggie Warrington |
 | John Ales | ... | Jason |
 | Patricia Wilson | ... | Dean's Secretary |
| Jamal Mixon | ... | Ernie Klump Jr. |
| Nichole McAuley | ... | Fit Woman |
 | Hamilton von Watts | ... | Health Instructor (as Hamilton Von Watts) |
| Chao Li Chi | ... | Asian Man (as Chao-Li Chi) |
| Tony Carlin | ... | Host |
 | Quinn Duffy | ... | Bartender |
| Montell Jordan | ... | Himself |
 | Doug Williams | ... | Band Leader |
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Rated PG-13 for crude humor and sexual references.
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95 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:L |
South Korea:12 |
Spain:18 |
Netherlands:6 (re-rating) |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Canada:14A |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-8 |
Germany:12 (w) |
Netherlands:AL (original rating) |
Peru:14 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:T |
UK:12 |
USA:PG-13
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The family scene was nearly cut out of the final film due to lack of relevance with the film's plot.
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Continuity: The position of the Snickers wrapper that Sherman tosses into the wastebasket.
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Reggie Warrington:
Women be shoppin'! You cannot stop a woman from shoppin'!
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I'm So Excited
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As a fat person myself, I encounter prejudice every day. Movies are especially bad, because it is still considered okay to make fun of fat people. Most skinny people just assume that we're lazy. They think that we have the potential to be as thin as is considered "normal," but we just are too lazy to do anything about it. That is absolutely false (not that the skinnies would ever buy that, but I can at least try).
Anyway, to get to The Nutty Professor, I found it to be one of the most sympathetic portrayals of fat people ever put on film. The only one that tops it is James Mangold's Heavy, although the protagonist's weight wasn't all that was harming his well-being.
The Nutty Professor did have some physical comedy involving fat that one could take as funny, but I never felt that the jokes were degrading. The main reason that I feel this was so sympathetic was that, though he experienced life as a skinny stud, he did decide to be a fat man at the end. One can chock this up to formulae, but something that Sherrman Klump said at the end really touched me: "I could try to lose weight, but I'm always going to be a fat man, and you're just going to have to live with that." I think that a film where the screenwriters who were bigoted would have said something like, "I'll lose weight without this stupid formula." That's not what happened, though, and I'm glad for that.