The Nutty Professor
| The Nutty Professor | |
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Original theatrical poster
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| Directed by | Jerry Lewis |
| Produced by | Ernest D. Glucksman Arthur P. Schmidt Jerry Lewis |
| Screenplay by | Jerry Lewis Bill Richmond |
| Based on |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Starring | Jerry Lewis Stella Stevens Del Moore Kathleen Freeman |
| Music by |
Walter Scharf Les Brown and His Band of Renown |
| Cinematography | W. Wallace Kelley |
| Edited by | John Woodcock |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time
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107 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | est. $3.5 million (US/ Canada) 1,956,744 admissions (France) |
The Nutty Professor is a 1963 American science fiction-romantic comedy film produced, directed, co-written (with Bill Richmond) and starring Jerry Lewis. The score was composed by Walter Scharf. The film is a parody of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
In 2004, The Nutty Professor was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
In 1996, a remake starring Eddie Murphy and Jada Pinkett-Smith was released, directed by Tom Shadyac.
Professor Julius Kelp is a nerdy, scruffy, buck-toothed, accident-prone, socially awkward university professor whose experiments in the classroom laboratory are unsuccessful and highly destructive. When a football-playing bully embarrasses and attacks him, Kelp decides to "beef up" by joining a local gym. Kelp's lack of physical strength prompts him to invent a serum that turns him into the handsome, suave, charming and cheeky girl-chasing hipster, Buddy Love.
This new personality gives him the self-confidence to pursue one of his students, Stella Purdy. Although she resents Love, she finds herself strangely attracted to him. Buddy wows the crowd with his jazzy, breezy musical delivery and poised demeanor at the Purple Pit, a nightclub where the students hang out. He also mocks a bartender and waitress and punches a student. The formula wears off at inopportune times, often to Kelp's humiliation.
Although Kelp knows that his alternate persona is a bad person, he cannot prevent himself from continually taking the formula as he enjoys the attention that Love receives. As Buddy performs at the annual student dance the formula starts to wear off. His real identity now revealed, Kelp gives an impassioned speech, admitting his mistakes and seeking forgiveness. Kelp says that the one thing he learned from being someone else is that if you don't like yourself, you can't expect others to like you. Purdy meets Kelp backstage, and confesses that she prefers Kelp over Buddy Love.
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