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visual preview and spiritual connections NORBIT

visual preview and spiritual connections NORBIT visual review by david bruce h ollywood j esus.com. SHORT SYNOPSIS. Norbit (EDDIE MURPHY) gets duded up for dinner with a childhood friend, Kate (THANDIE NEWTON.

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  1. visual previewand spiritual connections NORBIT visual review bydavidbrucehollywoodjesus.com

  2. SHORT SYNOPSIS Norbit (EDDIE MURPHY) gets duded up for dinner with a childhood friend, Kate (THANDIE NEWTON. Norbit (Eddie Murphy) has never had it easy. As a baby, he was abandoned on the steps of a Chinese restaurant/orphanage and raised by Mr. Wong (Eddie Murphy). Things get worse when he's forced into marriage by the mean, junk food-chugging queen, Rasputia (Eddie Murphy). Just when Norbit's hanging by his last thread, his childhood sweetheart, Kate (Thandie Newton), moves back to town. In the comedy "Norbit," he'll find that nice guys sometimes finish first.

  3. CAST Key Actor # 1 EDDIE MURPHYMr. Wong Key Actor # 2 EDDIE MURPHYNorbit Key Actor # 3 EDDIE MURPHYRasputia

  4. DID YOU KNOW Eddie Murphy is acting as three different characters in this comedy. This will be the sixth film in which he has played multiple roles; the others are Coming to America, Vampire in Brooklyn, The Nutty Professor, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, and Bowfinger. This is also Eddie Murphy's second live-action film for DreamWorks, after Dreamgirls. Murphy is notable at DreamWorks for voicing Donkey in the Shrek series of animated films. Eddie's older brother, Charlie Murphy, lends his voice to a handicapped dog in the movie.

  5. CREW BRIAN ROBBINS (director/executive producer) has produced several television and feature projects. He and partner Mike Tollin have guided “Dreamer,” “Coach Carter,” “Summer Catch,” “Radio,” “Big Fat Liar” and the soon-to-be-released “Wild Hogs” to the screen. JOHN DAVIS (producer), has produced more than 75 motion pictures and movies for television that have earned more than $4 billion worldwide. Photo: Steve Granitz/ Wireimage.com

  6. Thandie Newton gained international recognition opposite Nick Nolte in the Merchant-Ivory production of Jefferson in Paris as Sally Hemmings, which led to her being cast in Jonathan Demme'sBeloved (1998), in which she played the title character and costarred with Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey. She played the female lead Nyah Hall in the film Mission: Impossible II with Tom Cruise. When this film went over schedule, she had to pull out of the film Charlie's Angels, and her character ultimately went to Lucy Liu. THANDIE NEWTON (Kate)

  7. Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s first major film role was in director John Singleton's 1991 film, Boyz N The Hood, a well-reviewed film about inner city youths. Following the success of Boyz N The Hood, he was cast in a series of roles, both leading and supporting, including the 1996 film, Jerry Maguire, for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. CUBA GOODING, JR. (Deion Hughes)

  8. Robbins currently produces television successes “Smallville” and “One Tree Hill.” Previously produced TRP projects include ” “Arliss,” “The Amanda Show,” “What I Like About You,” “Kenan and Kel” and the long-running Nickelodeon favorite “”All That.” “The Bronx Is Burning” is scheduled to debut on ESPN in July 2007. Robbins and his partner Tollin were honored by Girls, Inc. in 2003 and launched the L.A. chapter of the Chasing the Dream Foundation, which awards scholarships to underprivileged youth. BRIAN ROBBINS (director/executive producer)

  9. EXTENDED SYNOPSIS “My name is Norbit Albert Rice, and I was an orphan…” Thus begins the story of Norbit (Eddie Murphy), who was brought up by Mr. Wong (Eddie Murphy) at the Golden Wonton Restaurant and Orphanage. There, Norbit met his true soulmate, the lovely Kate (Thandie Newton). The two became inseparable – that is, until Kate was adopted and left Norbit to begin her new life. One day, the lonely and easily intimidated nine-year-old Norbit is rescued on the school playground from the taunts of three bullies by hefty Rasputia (Eddie Murphy), age ten, who wields a mean right hook.

  10. EXTENDED SYNOPSIS As Norbit and Rasputia grow up, they marry and Norbit becomes part of her family. In “Norbit,” the King of Comedy is at it again. Eddie Murphy is Norbit. Eddie Murphy is Rasputia. Eddie Murphy is Mr. Wong. Murphy uses his extraordinary talents to bring these diverse and unforgettable characters to life in this boisterous, ribald comedy.

  11. EXTENDED SYNOPSIS Dysfunctional at best, Rasputia and her three brothers – Big Jack (Terry Crews), Earl (Clifton Powell) and Blue (Lester “Rasta ” Speight) – run the Latimore Construction Company, an outpost from which the brothers try to run the town of Boiling Springs, Tennessee. They spend most of their time running the good, hard-working people ragged, badgering, them and extorting money from them.

  12. EXTENDED SYNOPSIS An employee of the construction company, the meek and downtrodden Norbit is treated with disdain by his brutish brothers-in-law and even more contemptuously by his wife. The ravenous Rasputia often sends him to the local Rib Shak – owned by ex-pimps Pope Sweet Jesus (Eddie Griffin) and Lord Have Mercy (Katt Williams) - to pick up her supersized dinner.

  13. EXTENDED SYNOPSIS Such is Norbit’s lot, until his world undergoes a dramatic change when the grown-up and beautiful Kate returns to Boiling Springs. Kate has come back to buy the orphanage from the retiring Mr. Wong. But she is being bamboozled. Her seemingly adoring fiancé, Deion (Cuba Gooding, Jr. ) turns out to be a phony. He is secretly in cahoots with the conniving Latimores. They are planning to turn the orphanage into a strip club – The Nipplopolis.

  14. EXTENDED SYNOPSIS But steadfast Norbit sees through their façades with a dawning realization that all is not right in Boiling Springs and in the Norbit household. With the reawakening of his feelings for Kate, Norbit gains a newfound assertiveness, rejecting the role of downtrodden, exploited milquetoast in favor of the crusading hero who knows how to dress sharp, please the ladies and ride a bike.

  15. EXTENDED SYNOPSIS Will he finally stand up to the Latimores and save his true love from marrying the wrong guy? Will the mild-mannered mouse find his inner lion and set things right in Boiling Springs? And will he ever lose the yoke of servility imposed by the overwhelming, overpowering and overeating Rasputia? Therein lies a tale that can only be told by a masterful storyteller.

  16. What the critics are commenting about in this film is the makeup. Not the acting. Not the story. But, the makeup. In fact, this is what people in general are talking about. And more, it is what the studio publicity dudes are pointing to in this film. Not the acting. Not the story. Again, the makeup. In deed, the makeup is world class and sets a new benchmark. However, what about the meaning of the story? NORBIT Spiritual Connetions by David Bruce Director Robbins says, “I saw Rasputia as the evil stepmother and Norbit was sort of Cinderella getting locked in the basement. And then Kate was the princess coming to rescue to him.” Ultimately, Cinderella must decide to be free, prince or not.

  17. NORBIT Spiritual Connetions by David Bruce So basically, it is about a dominated person, Norbit, struggling to get beyond his oppressor. A better life awaits him, if he can just get there. The lotus of this story is the search for that freedom and pressing need of life affirming liberation. Stories like this help give us the assurance of captive-set-free possibilities with a laugh or two along the way. So, go, and be free. Be who you were created to be.

  18. NORBIT Spiritual Connetions by David Bruce THE COURAGE TO BE FREELY BE YOURSELF Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin (1903 - 1977) A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825) Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it. Helen Hayes (1900 – 1993)

  19. NORBIT Spiritual Connetions by David Bruce BE YOURSELF Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. --Patricia Sampson Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent. --Krishnamurti For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. --Nelson Mandela

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