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 ...

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.

Geneva Mays, a real-estate agent, says she is offended by the movie trailers that show Rasputia flying though her bedroom and landing on Norbit, crushing the bed in the fall.

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 ...

Eddie Murphy steals a new comedy By Kenya Vaughn Of the St. Louis American As the first 10 minutes of Norbit seem to go on for hours, it was hard not to think, “Oh God, not another Codename: The ...

Murphy, who created the story with his brother Charlie, plays Norbit, his 450-pound wife Rasputia and a Chinese restaurant owner who raises Norbit in an orphanage.

It’s also called “Norbit” because that’s the main character’s name: a nervous, nebbishy orphan (Murphy) who marries an abusive harpie named Rasputia (also Murphy, caked in latex) but ...

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 ...

With an idiot grin and a nerdy lisp, Murphy plays milquetoast orphan and designated victim Norbit, a bullied optimist wed to Rasputia, his playground protector turned horrid harpy. Yes, it's ...

In the movie as a whole, Norbit's suffering becomes a justification for the subsequent cruelty to Rasputia, as a devouring mother figure whose obesity serves as shorthand for all the things about ...