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Retrospective

The Nutty Professor

FromJerry Lewis

WithJerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman, Henry Gibson, Les Brown,

Year1963

Duration107min.

LanguageEnglish

The clumsy and unlucky in love Professor Julius Kelp (trademarks: buck teeth and thick horn-rimmed glasses) is a textbook failure. However, he has now developed a serum that transforms him into his attractive but monstrously narcissistic alter ego Buddy Love. But the transformation only lasts for a short time... THE NUTTY PROFESSOR is considered Lewis's best-known work: based on Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, it reflects the inferiority complexes of his film characters in relation to the opposite sex as extremes that are mutually dependent. Thus, the film – which, incidentally, is visually very impressive – is divided into parody and tragedy, in which laughter repeatedly turns into discomfort.
(Florian Widegger)