The Nutty Professor

The Nutty Professor (1996) is Tom Shadyac's sci-fi comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Eddie Murphy plays Sherman Klump, a kind, painfully shy genetics professor whose 400-pound frame makes him a target for every cruel joke on campus.

Then Carla Purty (Jada Pinkett-Smith) joins the faculty, and Sherman falls hard. To win her over he gulps down an experimental weight-loss serum he cooked up in the lab. It works almost too well. Out comes Buddy Love: lean, loud, and dangerously smooth, a Don Juan with zero filter. The catch? Both men share one body now, and Buddy has no intention of giving it back. Murphy doesn't just carry the lead either; under heavy prosthetics he plays nearly the entire Klump dinner table, a feat that earned the film an Oscar for makeup.

With James Coburn, Larry Miller and a young Dave Chappelle rounding out the cast, this loose remake of the 1963 Jerry Lewis film launched a franchise and remains a defining Murphy role. Stream The Nutty Professor (1996) online on iFILM.