Flubber
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| Flubber | |
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 Flubber DVD Cover | |
| Directed by | Les Mayfield |
| Produced by | David Nicksay, William Ryan |
| Written by | John Hughes, Bill Walsh |
| Starring | Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista |
| Release date(s) | November 26 1997 |
| Running time | 93 min. |
| Language | English |
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- For the Marvel Comics character, see Flubber (comics).
Flubber is a 1997 film produced by Disney starring Robin Williams and Marcia Gay Harden. It is a remake of the 1961 Disney film, The Absent-Minded Professor.
Robin Williams plays an absent-minded professor named Philip Brainard who develops a green rubber-like substance as a new form of energy which he calls Flubber. It was filmed in California. The film is rated PG for slapstick action and mild language.
[edit] Box office
US Gross Domestic Takings: US$ 92,977,226
- + Other International Takings: $85,000,000
= Gross Worldwide Takings: $177,977,226
[edit] Trivia
- Chicago Cubs radio broadcaster Pat Hughes is heard as the voice of the announcer at the Medfield College basketball game.
- There is actually no Medfield College, as there is only one town named Medfield in the United States. It is rumored that Walt Disney used to vacation in Medfield, Massachusetts, and used this name in the original, The Absent-Minded Professor.
- In the video, the building that was shot as Ford's headquarters is actually Adobe Systems' headquarters in San Jose, California.
- Special effects were done mainly by two studios: Industrial Light and Magic and Hammerhead Studios.
- We can see a scene from a Simpsons episode in this film.
- In The Simpsons episode Children of a Lesser Clod, Flubber is directly referenced by Professor Frink.
