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Rasputia, as created by Murphy and makeup whiz Rick Baker, is depicted as a nightmare: fat, ugly, sexually insatiable and mean as a hornet.

Eddie Murphy's 2007 movie Norbit was an infamous flop, and you may be even more surprised to learn that it also received an Oscar nomination.

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 ...

Norbit is devoted to Rasputia but repulsed by her sexually. Their lovemaking has all the tenderness of a WWE SmackDown – funny costumes and busted furniture.

Recently forced to marry the shrewish glutton Rasputia, he is at wit's end. Then his childhood sweetheart, Kate (Thandie Newton), moves back to town, and he tries to figure out a way back to his ...

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 ...

Murphy plays the enormous lady in question, Rasputia, as well as her hapless husband, Norbit, who as an infant was dumped in the driveway of an orphanage.

Years after its death by critics and moviegoers new life for Eddie Murphy’s Oscar-nominated comedy 'Norbit' is a reality via streaming.

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 ...