The Nutty Professor (1996 film) The Nutty Professor (1996 film) The Nutty Professor is a 1996 American slapstick science-fiction comedy film starring Eddie Murphy. It is a remake of the 1963 film of the same name, which starred Jerry Lewis, which itself was a parody of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". The film co-stars Jada Pinkett, James Coburn, Larry Miller, Dave Chappelle and John Ales. The original music score was composed by David Newman. The film won Best Makeup at the 69th Academy Awards. Murphy portrays a university professor, Sherman Klump, a kind-hearted man who is morbidly obese. A
Perspective (film) which was in production, intermittently, from 2002 to 2013. "Perspective" spans nearly a decade in the lives of fictional characters that actually age. “As a recording art form, motion pictures are uniquely paradoxical,” says Paquette, “they can capture realities that authenticate its artifice.” From Rolf Leslie playing twenty-seven characters in the life story of Queen Victoria in the silent feature "Sixty Years a Queen" in 1913 to Eddie Murphy playing eight characters in "" in 2000, the casting of a performer to play two or more characters in a film is, and always has been, common. The history of casting