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
Fool for Love (play) Fool for Love (play) Fool for Love is a play written by American playwright and actor Sam Shepard. The play focuses on May and Eddie, former lovers who have met again in a motel in the desert. The play premiered in 1983 at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, where Shepard was the playwright-in-residence. The play was a finalist for the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play is part of a quintet which includes Shepard's Family Trilogy: "Curse of the Starving Class" (1977), "Buried Child" (1979), and "True West" (1980). The quintet concludes with "Fool for Love" and "A