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  Flubber 1997
GENERAL INFORMATION

directed by - les mayfield
screenplay by - john hughes
music by - danny elfman
genre - family, fantasy, comedy
rating - PG
runtime - 93 min
gross - $177,977,226
premiere - november 11, 1997 (new york)
theatrical release - november 26, 1997
dvd release date - june 16, 1998
filming - october 081996 > february 04, 1997
filming locations - alameda, ca
                                 san jose, ca

                                 treasure island, ca

                                 stanford university, ca

                                 palo alto, ca

                                 stockton, ca

production company - great oaks entertainment
                                        walt disney pictures

  SUMMARY

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. I looks like rubber, so he calls it flubber. This film is based on the 1961 Disney classic, "The Absent-Minded Professor.

  QUOTES

phillip
Morning—or afternoon, whatever the case may be. We have a lot to talk about today, so let’s get into it without delay. Oh! Oh, uh, thank you, whoever gave me the plate of fruit and the dead pheasant, but it does not count as extra credit. Last time we were talking about Newton’s Law of gravitation. To review: We see this “G” is like the “C” in E=MC squared. It’s a constant, constant universe, as much as anything is constant in the universe. It’s saying that the force of attraction between two bodies is in direct proportion to the product of the masses and in inverse proportion to the square of the distance between them. An example would be—Let’s make, uh, naked man, “M-1.” Naked lady “M-2.” Now, according to this formula, their attractive forces would want to close the distance to zero. Why don’t they? Hmm? The earth! Ah. So, in essence that is gravity and this…is “Dr. Richard’s Life Drawing.” Ah. It’s not my class, is it?

philip
Wish I understood human beings. Wish I understood women. Wish I understood emotions and passions. I wish I understood any of that. If I did, I wouldn't have to spend my entire life in a laboratory trying to figure out how the world works. I would've been out in the world trying to figure out why it works. I know I love her, Weebo. Every neuron in my limbic system is saturated with phenylethylamine. That triggers euphoria, elation, exhilaration. Truth is, Weebo, I'm not absent-minded because I'm selfish or crazy or-or inconsiderate. I'm absent-minded because I'm in love with Sara.

  STILLS

                       

  MAIN CAST
robin williams - philip brainard
maria gay harden - sara jean reynolds
christopher mcdonald - wilson croft
jodi benson - weebo
  TAGLINE
The stuff dreams are made of
  INTERNATIONAL RELEASE DATES
thailand - december 04, 1997
singapore - december 11, 1997
brazil - december 12, 1997
mexico - december 19, 1997
south korea - december 20, 1997
argentina - december 25, 1997
australia - december 26, 1997
new zealand - december 26, 1997
hong kong - january 28, 1998
poland - january 30, 1998
hungary - february 05, 1998
uk - february 06, 1998
netherlands - february 12, 1998
iceland - february 13, 1998
slovakia - march 05, 1998
japan - march 07, 1998
spain - march 10, 1998
denmark - march 13, 1998
finland - march 13, 1998
italy - march 13, 1998
norway - march 13, 1998
germany - march 19, 1998
estonia - march 20, 1998
sweden - march 20, 1998
portugal - march 27, 1998
switzerland - march 27, 1998
belgium - april 01, 1998
france - april 01, 1998
greece - april 03, 1998
turkey - april 04, 1998
kuwait - april 05, 1998
russia - october 30, 1998
  AVAILABILITY

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  BOX OFFICE DETAILS

gross - $92,977,226 (us)
              $85,000,000 (foreign)
              $177,977,226 (total)
opening weekend - $26,725,207 (2,641 theaters)
widest release - 2,679 theaters

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