After taking an almost three-year break from movie making, Eddie Murphy returned in The Nutty Professor and it immediately reestablished him as box office gold.
Eddie Murphy stars as the grossly overweight Professor Sherman Klump, who develops a serum that shrinks him down and turns him into the obnoxious, but popular, Buddy Love.
The Nutty Professor was a huge hit with critics and audiences alike, and it completely altered the course of Eddie Murphy’s career, though maybe not for the better.
Jada Pinkett stars as his love interest and friend, and the rest of the roles in the movie are played by Murphy himself.