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26/11/1997 Comedy, Family, Science Fiction 1h 33m
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Overview

Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third wedding, Professor Brainard creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air.

  1. Les Mayfield

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Robin Williams

    Professor Philip Brainard

  2. Marcia Gay Harden

    Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds

  3. Christopher McDonald

    Wilson Croft

  4. Raymond J. Barry

    Chester Hoenicker

  5. Clancy Brown

    Smith

  6. Nancy Olson

    Secretary at Ford Motor Company

  7. Ted Levine

    Wesson

  8. Wil Wheaton

    Bennett Hoenicker

  9. Edie McClurg

    Martha George

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-01-02
It's kind of fitting as I decided to decline Disney's kind invitation to pay 33% more for my Disney+ that this is the last of their films that I watched. It sums up the mediocrity of this once innovative source of vibrant and creative animation - and presents us with a derivative version of a film that Jerry Lewis might have made in the 1960s if he'd owned "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" - and no, "Flubber" isn't even a dolphin! It all relies on the rather annoying performance of Robin Williams in the role of the madcap scientist "Prof. Brainard" who is determined to save his college from closure by...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$80,000,000.00

Revenue
$178,000,000.00

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