Flubber (film) Flubber (film) Flubber is a 1997 American science fiction comedy film directed by Les Mayfield (who had previously directed another John Hughes scripted remake, "Miracle on 34th Street") and written by Hughes, based on an earlier screenplay by Bill Walsh. A remake of "The Absent-Minded Professor" (1961), the film was produced by Walt Disney Pictures and stars Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald, Ted Levine, Raymond J. Barry, and Clancy Brown. The film grossed $178 million worldwide. In selected theatres, the "Pepper Ann" episode "Old Best Friend" was featured before the film. Professor Philip Brainard (Robin Williams), of Medfield
Mary and Martha (film) setting up Ms. Swank's somewhat annoying character for a fall that Ms. Blethyn's more interesting character is given short shrift. But the scenes in which the two actresses are together have some real power." Critical with the film, "The A.V. Club"s Simon Abrams wrote that "at first, the off-the-cuff insensitivity that "Mary and Martha"s characters persistently exhibit seems benign enough. "Mary and Martha" is, after all, a made-for-TV melodrama about two mothers that bond after their respective sons die from malaria, and grief does sometimes manifest itself in strange ways. Screenwriter Richard Curtis and director Phillip Noyce do their best