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Manage[s] to squeeze the very bounce out of what should have been a can't-miss update.
Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today
Flubber
Catch it if you can!
1997 · 1h 33m · PG
Comedy, Family, Science Fiction
Directed by
Les Mayfield
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.
Director and cast
- Les Mayfield Director
- Robin Williams as Professor Philip Brainard
- Marcia Gay Harden as Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
- Christopher McDonald as Wilson Croft
- Raymond J. Barry as Chester Hoenicker
- Clancy Brown as Smith
- Nancy Olson as Secretary at Ford Motor Company
- Ted Levine as Wesson
- Wil Wheaton as Bennett Hoenicker
- Edie McClurg as Martha George
- Jodi Benson as Weebo
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