Flubber

An absent-minded professor discovers “flubber,” a rubber-like super-bouncy substance.

• Director:Les Mayfield
• Genre:Comedy / Family / Fantasy
• Runtime:90 minutes

Cast

Robin Williams : Professor Philip Brainard
Marcia Gay Harden : Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
Christopher McDonald : Wilson Croft
Raymond J. Barry : Chester Hoenicker (as Raymond Barry)
Clancy Brown : Smith

Professor Phillip Brainard (Robin Williams), an absent minded professor, works with his robot assistant Weebo (voiced by Jodi Benson), trying to create a substance that’s a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara (Marcia Gay Harden), the remake’s version of Betsy Carlisle, is the dean. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third wedding, Professor Brainard accidentally creates Flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air. It behaves like rubber, so he calls it Flubber (Flying Rubber). When he misses the third wedding, he tries to explain it to Sara by demonstrating flubber, but he falls out a window and Sara angrily breaks up with him and begins seeing Wilson Croft (Christopher McDonald), a professor from another college and the remake’s version of Alonzo Hawk.

Meanwhile, Phillip creates a flying car to win Sara back and tries to figure out ways to control the Flubber. He comes up with an idea to use the Flubber to help the Medfield basketball team win the championship, which they do, but he doesn’t win Sara’s heart back. Back at the house, he explains to Weebo that he’s absent-minded because he’s in love with Sara and Weebo records him saying it. She goes to Sara’s house to prove it to her. Philip then wakes up to see Sara standing above him and she kisses him.

At the same time, a rich and corrupt businessman named Chester Hoenicker (Raymond J. Barry) wants Phillip to pass his failing son Bennett (Wil Wheaton), but he soon takes an interest in Flubber after hearing about it from his flunkies Smith (Clancy Brown) and Wesson (Ted Levine). Smith and Wesson steal the Flubber and destroy Weebo in the process. Brainard and Sara get the Flubber back in a flubberistic battle.

The film ends with Sara and Phillip flying away in the car with Weebo’s daughter, Weebette, in tow having finally married through a video screen. Read more

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