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
Eddie Murphy union". The two had planned on having a legal ceremony upon their return to the U.S. but did not, and their wedding was never official. Murphy began dating model Paige Butcher in 2012. Their daughter Izzy was born May 3, 2016. In August 2018, the couple announced they were expecting another child, a boy. The couple got engaged in September 2018. On November 30, the couple's son, Max Charles Murphy, was born. The child's middle name honor's Eddie Murphy's late brother, Charlie Murphy, who passed away from leukemia in 2017. In 1988, Art Buchwald sued Murphy and Paramount Pictures, alleging