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Flubber (1997)

PG11/26/1997Comedy, Family, Science Fiction1h 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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Robin Williams

    Professor Philip Brainard

  2. Cast 1

    Marcia Gay Harden

    Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds

  3. Cast 1

    Christopher McDonald

    Wilson Croft

  4. Cast 1

    Raymond J. Barry

    Chester Hoenicker

  5. Cast 1

    Clancy Brown

    Smith

  6. Cast 1

    Nancy Olson

    Secretary at Ford Motor Company

  7. Cast 1

    Ted Levine

    Wesson

  8. Cast 1

    Wil Wheaton

    Bennett Hoenicker

  9. Cast 1

    Edie McClurg

    Martha George

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...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$80,000,000.00

Revenue $178,000,000.00

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