Had Murphy not snapped up the role of Rasputia, the bulging bete noire of the movie’s emasculated hero, the job of serving as the butt of the movie’s endless string of fat jokes would have ...

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. Both characters ...

Fast-forward 30 years. 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 ...

Why would they come to see a film that pokes fun at them? From the outset, as Rasputia rescues the hapless Norbit from schoolyard bullies and declares herself his girlfriend, the film portrays ...

But as convincing as he is as one character — an absurdly obese, foul-mouthed bully named “Rasputia” (“an Escalade in a wedding dress”), and as close to offensive as he tries to make ...

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. He married her out of a combination of ...

He portrays both the meek nerd Norbit and Norbit’s jealous and overbearing wife, Rasputia. The movie, No. 1 at the box office when it opened two weekends ago, drew harsh reviews from film ...

Murphy plays three wildly different roles–the super-nice, nerdy title character, Norbit Albert Rice; Norbit’s huge and foul-tempered wife, Rasputia; and the elderly and cynical orphanage owner ...

After his soulmate gets adopted, he is left to bear the beatings of the schoolyard bullies. That is, of course, until the overweight and overwhelming Rasputia (Eddie Murphy) saves him from drowning in ...

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 ...

Norbit is chased by his obsessed, jealous and overbearing wife, Rasputia, also played by Murphy (in a fat suit). The movie, No. 1 at the box office when it opened two weekends ago, drew harsh ...