Nutty Professor [DVD] [1996] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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  • Actor : Eddie Murphy
  • Actor : Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Actor : James Coburn
  • Actor : Larry Miller
  • Actor : Dave Chappelle
  • Aspect Ratio : 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Binding : DVD
  • Creator : Eddie Murphy
  • Creator : Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Director : Tom Shadyac
  • EAN : 9780783230733
  • Format : Anamorphic
  • Format : Closed-captioned
  • Format : Colour
  • Format : DTS Surround Sound
  • Format : DVD-Video
  • Format : NTSC
  • Format : Widescreen
  • ISBN : 0783230737
  • Label : Universal Studios
  • Languages : Original Language: English
  • Manufacturer : Universal Studios
  • Number Of Discs : 1
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Package Dimensions : 0.60 inches (Height) x 7.50 inches (Length) x 0.25 pounds (Weight) x 5.40 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : DVD
  • Publisher : Universal Studios
  • Region Code : 1
  • Release Date : 1999-03-16
  • Running Time : 96
  • SKU : 903367909
  • Studio : Universal Studios
  • UPC : 025192045929

Lucky for Eddie Murphy he got hold of the rights to this 1963 Jerry Lewis classic before Jim Carrey did. Murphy had a comeback of sorts with his Jeckyll-and-Hyde-derived fable of awkward chemistry professor Sherman Klump (Murphy), who discovers a potion that transforms him into the suave, cocky lady-killer Buddy Love (also Murphy). The big difference between the two versions is that Murphy's Sherman is not only a nerdy intellectual but is also grossly obese, which provides the opportunity for some hilarious digital transformation effects, as well as some gentle satire of our culture's attitudes toward fat people. As he did in the hit Coming to America, Murphy plays multiple roles, and the scenes at the Klump family dinner table, in which he plays everybody, are brilliantly funny. (Murphy won the National Society of Film Critics' award for best actor of 1996 for these performances.) Lewis based his Buddy Love on the 1960s ideal of cool exemplified by Sinatra and the Rat Pack; Murphy stumbles a bit by playing up the oily phoniness of his latter-day Love a little too soon, but for the most part The Nutty Professor represents a welcome return to form for Eddie Murphy. --Jim Emerson

- Amazon.co.uk Review

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