

The Nutty Professor
Inside Sherman Klump, a party animal is about to break out.
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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5.7/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $54M
- Box office
- $128.8M
- Language
- English
- overweight
- overweight man
- campus
- family dinner
- jekyll and hyde
- duringcreditsstinger
- chemistry professor
- 1990s
- hilarious
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG-1328 Jun 1996
- Theatrical (limited)PG-1330th Anniversary re-release4 Sept 2026
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical124 Oct 1996
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM19 Sept 1996
CzechiaCZ
- TheatricalU31 Oct 1996
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical728 Jun 1996
FranceFR
- TheatricalU4 Sept 1996
- PhysicalDVD21 Jul 1999
- Digital / OTTVOD27 Mar 2014
- Digital / OTT10Netflix1 Sept 2022
- TV6ter26 Oct 2025
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1216 Oct 1996
ItalyIT
- TheatricalT15 Nov 1996
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical617 Oct 1996
- TV6SBS 625 May 2002
- Physical6Blu ray29 Aug 2016
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/1222 Nov 1996
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical1511 Jan 1997
SpainES
- TheatricalAPTA28 Sept 1996
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The Nutty Professor was released on 28 June 1996.
Audience reviews
2- F5/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
5/18/2024
**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 foll…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
9/3/2026
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…
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