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Synopsis

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 is highly unstable in bright light, but under all conditions is ductile, elastic, anthropomorphic, intelligent, impressionable, nearly indestructible, and capable of retaining kinetic energy indefinitely, so that if given the impetus it will rebound repeatedly, increasing the velocity and force with each collision. It is eventually used to help the University basketball team win. The film is rated PG for slapstick action and mild language. The absent-minded professor is a stock character of popular fiction usually portrayed as an academic with important information, but whose focus on their learning leads them to ignore their surroundings. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ...

Box office

Flubber performed well at the box office. It made $92,977,226 in the United States and a total of 85 million in other countries for a grand total of $177,977,226 internationally.

Other Information

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• 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. In fact, 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 film on which Flubber is based, The Absent-Minded Professor.
• Robin Williams showed up on the set with matching shaved eyebrows.
• 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. Also in the episode Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em..., Homer Simpson says to Professor Frink "No problem, but why don't you go inside and stir your Flubber while I get to work."
• The production was partially filmed on the campus of San José State University.
• The two thugs that work for the villain Hoenicker are Smith and Wesson, a nod to the Massachusetts-based handgun manufacturer of the same name.
• In the movie Superstar, Flubber is referenced in the video rental store scene when the cheerleader informs her boyfriend that she's renting Flubber again.
• In the middle of the movie (when Robin Williams flies his 1962 Ford Thunderbird, he mentions Sir Isaac Newton and then when he sees Christopher McDonald sitting with his girlfriend Sara. When he leaves, Robin (as the Professor) then says to an apple "Sir Isaac" and throws it directly to his rival's head.
• Nancy Olsen, who played the part of Professor Brainard's love interest Betsy in The Absent Minded Professor, makes a brief, uncredited cameo appearance in this film.

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External links

• Flubber at the Internet Movie Database
• Flubber at Allmovie
• Flubber at Rotten Tomatoes
• Flubber at Box Office Mojo
• Walt Disney's Flubber
• How to make Flubber recipe