# The Nutty Professor (1996)

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**Runtime**: 95 min
**Genres**: Fantasy, Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction
**Directed by**: Tom Shadyac
**Written by**: Steve Oedekerk, Tom Shadyac, Peter S. Seaman
**Starring**: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn, Larry Miller, Dave Chappelle, John Ales

> *Inside Sherman Klump, a party animal is about to break out.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Las Vegas lights, a lab full of broken dreams, a beaker shatters. A professor's desperate attempt to shrink himself, a chaotic transformation into a slick alter ego. Tom Shadyac brings a chaotic energy to this body-swap comedy.

**Mood tags**: cozy, playful

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 5.7/10 (129827 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 63% · Metacritic 64/100

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