Flubber is a 1997 remake of the 1961 film The Absent-Minded Professor. The film was produced by Disney starring Robin Williams and Marcia Gay Harden. While poorly reviewed, the film did well at the box office.

Synopsis

Professor Phillip Brainard (Robin Williams), an absent minded professor, works with his robot assistant Weebo (voiced by Jodi Benson), trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara (Marcia Gay Harden), the remake's version of Betsy Carlisle, is the dean. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third wedding, Professor Brainard accidentally creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air. It behaves like rubber, so he calls it flubber (Flying Rubber). When he misses the third wedding, he tries to explain it to Sara by demonstrating flubber, but he falls out the window and Sara angrily breaks up with him and starts seeing Wilson Croft (Christopher McDonald), a professor from another college and the remake's version of Alonzo Hawk.