Norbit (2007)

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Studio: DreamWorks SKG
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Feb 9, 2007
Running Time: 103 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Norbit has never had it easy. As a baby, he was abandoned on the steps of a Chinese restaurant/orphanage and raised by Mr. Wong. Things get worse when he's forced into marriage by the mean, junk food-chugging queen, Rasputia. Just when Norbit's hanging by his last thread, his childhood sweetheart, Kate, moves back to town.
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Deion Hughes
Pope Sweet Jesus
Big Jack
Lord Have Mercy
Kate Age 5
Morris the Barber
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Please tell me Murphy was talked into this. Yes, he has followed a certain comedic formula in the last few years that has worked for him. But with Norbit, it seems like they came up with the fat suit first and said, "Oh, who cares about a story, Eddie will be hilarious in this." Um, not quite. There are a few moments in which Rasputia's antics make you chuckle, but Murphy's interpretation of a big, proud—and mean--black woman gets very tiresome, very quickly. And as Norbit, Murphy doesn't… Continued