The Nutty Professor (1996 film) Nutty Professor" was a box office success, opening with $25,411,725 and reaching a domestic sum of $128,814,019, and $145,147,000 overseas, for a total of $273,961,019 worldwide. A sequel, "" was released on July 28, 2000. 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
Buddy film civilized" while the white man "is equipped for survival in... the urban landscape". The 1980s was a popular decade for action films, and the genre that "blended masculinity, heroism, and patriotism into an idealized image" was hybridized with buddy films. Following the Civil Rights Movement, black advancement was also reflected in more common biracial pairings. In this decade, the buddy cop film took the place of the buddy road movie. Action films with biracial pairings include the 1982 film "48 Hours" starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte and the 1987 film "Lethal Weapon" starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. "American