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Genres:
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Comedy /
Sci-Fi
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Release:
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Director:
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Jerry Lewis
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Actors:
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Howard Morris,
Skip Ward,
Med Flory,
David Landfield,
Elvia Allman,
Buddy Lester,
Jerry Lewis,
Stella Stevens,
Del Moore,
Kathleen Freeman,
Norman Alden,
Milton Frome,
Marvin Kaplan,
Julie Parrish,
Henry Gibson
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Duration:
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107 min.
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Rating:
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(6.7/10)50.5
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Plot Summary:
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Professor Julius Kelp is a nerd who's been picked on by everyone. After the football coach humiliates him in front of his class and his beautiful student, Stella, Julius decides he will design a potion. After drinking the potation, he turns into, Buddy Love a wild and a non-professional party animal, plus, he isn't afraid to talk to Stella anymore. There's one puzzler-the potion wears off quickly.
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An underrated classic
This excellent film marks the high point of the often irritating Jerry Lewis’s movie career. Lewis demonstrates not only outstanding comic timing, delivery and inventiveness, but also brings a surprising subtlety and depth to his performance, rare amongst untrained actors. A word of warning, though. Do not confuse this film with the dreadful remake starring the congenitally unfunny Eddie Murphy.
Nutty Professor, The
You sway be someone who'll cross a continent to leave alone watching a Jerry Lewis motion picture. You might favour to listen to nails being dragged down a blackboard for an hour-and-a-half, sort of than advised his kooky medium. And if you are anybody of those people, you might want to avoid this like the epidemic. It sees Lewis as a wacky, socially inept and nerdy inventor who comes up with a technique that makes him a suave mankind-about-village in search of affair. Lewis directed this comedy Jekyll and Hyde and while he concentrates on the jerky, simpering soppiness of his stock on-blind persona, he takes a foxy crack at his former partner Martin when it comes to the chemically enhanced personality. Lewis fans heed it as possibly his beat work. It was remade in ...
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