The Nutty Professor

United States

1963

107 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
1
2
3
4
5

SCR Jerry Lewis, Bill Richmond

CAST Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman, Henry Gibson, Howard Morris

Synopsis

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 create a potion. After drinking the potion, he turns into, Buddy Love a wild and a popular party animal, plus, he isn’t afraid to talk to Stella anymore. There’s one problem-the potion wears off quickly. —IMDb

Director

Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis (born March 16, 1926) is an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor in stage, screen, television, radio, and recording and is also known for his charity fund-raising telethons and position as national chairman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Lewis has won several awards for lifetime achievements from The American Comedy Awards, The Golden Camera, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and The Venice Film Festival, and he has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2005, he received the Governors Award of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Board of Governors, which is the highest Emmy Award presented.

On February 22, 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Lewis the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. As an innovative filmmaker, Lewis is credited with inventing the video assist system in cinematography (some doubt now exists about this, due to… read more

Wall

Displaying 2 wall posts.

see all

Greg S.

28Feb12

This is one of the most bizarre comedies Hollywood ever produced. When I first saw the film I dismissed most of it as hokey /outdated but rewatching some years later I find the humor incredibly cinematic. The jokes are not outdated Lewis is just going for a different effect and in either case I find Lewis bag of tricks as amusing as any recent comedy and the emotional core is surprisingly effective. Masterpiece.