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Forgetful Professor Phillip Brainard inadvertently creates flying rubber in his lab misses his wedding date repeatedly and is menaced by bungling goons hired by a jealous rival out to steal his lady and his invention. Producer and co-screenwriter John Hughes renders the Disney classic The Absent-Minded Professor for the digital-effects crowd dusting it with the slapstick hyperbole of his Home Alone films and modern touches like Brainards sassy floating personal robot Weebo. Meanwhile the flubber itself takes on a life of its own executing a musical production number.