

The Absent-Minded Professor
The most amazing discovery since laughter!
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $2M
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- flying car
- inventor
- professor
- basketball
- black and white
- absent minded
- secret formula
- flubber
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalG16 Mar 1961
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU20 Jan 1961
AustraliaAU
- PhysicalGVHS1 Jan 1986
FranceFR
- TheatricalU28 Feb 1962
- Digital / OTTDisney+22 Mar 2020
GermanyDE
- Theatrical68 Sept 1961
ItalyIT
- Theatrical18 Aug 1961
JapanJP
- TheatricalG29 Jul 1961
SwedenSE
- Theatrical716 Mar 1961
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The Absent-Minded Professor was released on 20 January 1961.
Audience reviews
2- J7/10
John Chard
4/12/2020
Substance X, we dub thee - Flubber! The Absent-Minded Professor is directed by Robert Stevenson and adapted to screenplay by Bill Walsh from a story by Samuel W. Taylor. It stars Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olsen, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Leon Ames and Elliott Reid. Music is by George Bruns and cinematography by Edward Colman. Out of Disney, we get the kind of wacky family friendly comedy that serves a purpose on a …
- R7/10
r96sk
6/29/2020
An amusing film regarding Professor Brainard, a character I've always associated with Robin Williams having seen the 1997 remake first back when I was younger. Fred MacMurray plays the aforementioned in this, the original. He is pleasing here, giving a more than satisfying performance - even if it is pretty similar to the one he gives in <em>'The Shaggy Dog'</em> back in 1959. Elsewhere, Keenan Wynn plays Alonzo H…
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