Rasputia: A Comic Type, or a Racial Stereotype? ... One side of the debate over the plus-size heroines casts them as sisters of the bold and brassy women played by Monique and Queen Latifah.

Norbit is married to Rasputia (Murphy, in promised blubber suit), a hideous, plus-size Svengali of a woman who sank her meat hooks into Norbit when he was a wimpy grade-schooler and never let go.

Hope arrives in the impossibly thin form of Norbit’s childhood love Kate (Thandie Newton), but obstacles stand in their way -- for starters, Rasputia’s mountainous, muscle-bound brothers and ...

Rasputia’s bullying shakedown crew of a family (Terry Crews of Everybody Hates Chris is a hoodlum hoot) keeps Norbit under its thumb, so even if he wanted to steal Kate (Newton) from her gold ...

“Norbit,” with Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Eddie Griffin, Terry Crews, Clifton Powell, Katt Williams, Lester “Rasta” Speight and Cuba Gooding Jr. Directed by Brian Robbins, from a ...

Rasputia’s bullying shake-down crew of a family (Terry Crews of “Everybody Hates Chris” is a hoodlum hoot) keeps Norbit under its thumb, so even if he wanted to steal Kate (Newton) from her ...

Rasputia’s size and temperament are intertwined throughout the movie. She is mean because she is fat. She is fat because she’s mean.

Eddie Murphy at Beverly Hilton Hotel on November 6, 2016, in Beverly Hills, CA *More than a decade after its death by critics and moviegoers, Eddie Murphy’s Oscar-nominated comedy “Norbit ...

Two recent film portrayals of African-American women have drawn huge audiences: Tyler Perry's Madea character, which has spawned a franchise; and Eddie Murphy's Rasputia in Norbit. The large ...