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The Nutty Professor

1963

Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman ...

6.3

6,597

Comedy. Fantasy. Sci-Fi 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. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Eric Henderson Slant	"Of all Jerry Lewis’s films,' The Nutty Professor' may be the closest to achieving an unfussy plea for pathos (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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