
The Nutty Professor
1963, Comedy, 1h 47m
25 Reviews 25,000+ RatingsYou might also like
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Cast & Crew
Professor Julius Kelp, Buddy Love, Baby Kelp
Stella Purdy
Dr. Hamius R. Warfield
Millie Lemmon
Football Player
Mr. Elmer Kelp
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Critic Reviews for The Nutty Professor
All Critics (25) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (4)
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[Jerry] Lewis constructed one of his sturdiest scripts in The Nutty Professor, and he wasted scarcely a minute of it.
June 9, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
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March 24, 2007 | Rating: 3/5 -
Contains some of Lewis's most outr directorial flourishes.
October 14, 2004 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review… -
The Nutty Professor is a waste of talent, a waste of superb color photography and a waste of time.
January 22, 2019 | Full Review… -
The Nutty Professor was not only a starring vehicle for Lewis, the comedian, it was also co-written and directed by the star and shows, intentionally and deliberately, two drastically different sides of him.
June 27, 2014 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review… -
Demonstrates that Jerry Lewis is the absolute master of screen space: There's not a single indifferent shot in the film.
June 17, 2014 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for The Nutty Professor
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May 09, 2018Despite its sexist tendencies that make it seem outdated for today's standards, this uneven comedy has many funny moments and can be quite impressive with Jerry Lewis playing two very different (and magnetic) characters - that is, if we don't take its implausible ending so seriously.Carlos M Super Reviewer
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Sep 06, 2017Shot in uber bright (nearly cartoon) colors and co-written, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, here is the famous Doctor Jekyll, Mr. Hyde story made as close to personal therapy as could be. The humor is spotty and often mean spirited (something Stella Stevens somehow nullifies), but the overall entertainment intention drags itself through and only just barely. And this lukewarm appraisal by a longtime fan ...Kevin M. W Super Reviewer
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Dec 15, 2013Lewis' The Nutty Professor is a classic, intelligent and surreal comedy, that prove his comical and cinematographic genius.Lucas M Super Reviewer
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Sep 17, 2010Jerry Lewis' magnum opus, a riotously funny classic comedy that he wonderfully directed and co-wrote. It's concerns a homely, nearsighted chemistry professor named Dr. Julius Kelp, played sensationally by Jerry Lewis in a masterful comic performance, he is constantly ridiculed by his students and fellow colleagues and totally ignored by all the ladies. Well all that is about to forever change, because he has concocted an amazing potion that will transform him into a handsome, creosote-haired, self-assured, hard-drinking lady-killer named "Buddy Love." But this Jekyll-and-Hyde routine will soon have serious consequences for the bumbling professor Kelp when the girl of his dreams, one of his students, superbly played by the gorgeous Stella Stevens, begins to fall for the conceited, super-cool Buddy Love. Astute direction by Lewis, with marvelously supporting performances by Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman, Med Flory, Norman Alden, Howard Morris, Ellvia Allman, Marvin Kaplan, Buddy Lester, Henry Gibson, and Richard Kiel. Striking cinematography by W. Wallace Kelly. There are some truly hilarious slight gags and slapstick sequences. A comic masterpiece that is a must-see! Highly Recommended.Danny R Super Reviewer
The Nutty Professor Quotes
Prof. Julius Ferris Kelp: | Hey lady! Hello lady type person type thing! |
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